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Steve Lew

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18385502 ↗
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Steve Lew (born 1958 in Watsonville, California) is an American community organizer, LGBT rights activist and AIDS activist.

Biography

In 1987, Lew was an organizer for the first west coast conference for Asian Pacific Lesbian and Gays. Lew also co-founded the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project in San Francisco. The organization grew into a national service organization, was renamed the Living Well project, and eventually merged with the Asian AIDS project to become the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center in 1997.

In 1995, Lew was appointed as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Lew is a currently Senior Project Director for CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in Oakland, California.

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