Vic Basile

Victor Basile is an author and American LGBT rights activist who was the first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (then the Human Rights Campaign Fund), serving in that position from June 1983 to June 1989.

Basile served in the Clinton Administration at the Peace Corps, raising money for volunteer projects for which there were no appropriated dollars. He also served in the Obama Administration as a Counselor to the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management from April 2009 to April 2014 where he advised on LGBT issues. He also advocated for reforms to the federal employee retirement system and supported the overhaul of the agency's website.

In 2023, he published Bending Toward Justice, a memoir and early history of the Human Rights Campaign. Provided by Wikipedia