Sean Sasser, best known as Pedro Zamora's boyfriend on The Real World: San Francisco has died at age 44. The death was announced by fellow Real World cast member Judd Winick on Twitter on Tuesday night.

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In recent years, Sasser, along with his husband Michael, has been an advocate for AIDS and AIDS research. As recently as May, he was working as a pastry chef in Washington DC.

Sasser, who was HIV positive, died of mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the lungs, according to his life partner, Michael Kaplan, according to the website Queerty.

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