Thursday, August 08, 2013

Sean Sasser, AIDS Activist Known From MTV’s "The Real World," Dead at 44

AIDS activist Sean Sasser has died, several of his friends announced Wednesday night.

The activist and black, gay man whose face and spirit became a part of the MTV generation’s gay and AIDS awareness through his relationship with The Real World’s Pedro Zamora had been a prominent part of the San Francisco season of the MTV show, which aired in 1994. Zamora, who was HIV-positive, died shortly after the season ended.

Sasser moved to D.C. in recent years as a result of a job his current partner, Michael Kaplan, took running AIDS United, a nonprofit group aimed at “end[ing] the AIDS epidemic within the United States.” (keep reading)

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