Vic Basile
In It To Win It with Vic Basile
As the first Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Vic Basile led a significant coalescence of the LGBTQ+ rights lobbying community during the AIDS crisis and fought prejudice and bigotry on Capitol Hill. In his new memoir, Bending Toward Justice: A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign, he tells the story of those challenging years and sets the stage for the continued growth of the organization into today's Human Rights Campaign. We dive into his lessons learned and how he grew into the roles he needed to fill in order to create an effective organization that addressed both the needs of the LGBTQ+ community and the legal voids that drove those needs.
As the first Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Vic Basile led a significant coalescence of the LGBTQ+ rights lobbying community during the AIDS crisis and fought prejudice and bigotry on Capitol Hill. In his new memoir, Bending Toward Justice: A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign, he tells the story of those challenging years and sets the stage for the continued growth of the organization into today's Human Rights Campaign. We dive into his lessons learned and how he grew into the roles he needed to fill in order to create an effective organization that addressed both the needs of the LGBTQ+ community and the legal voids that drove those needs.
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Guest Biography
Vic has enjoyed the rare opportunity and extraordinary privilege of a career of public service and social justice advocacy. A widely recognized national leader in the LGBTQ community, he has committed his efforts to guaranteeing equality for this constituency. His initial work as a VISTA Volunteer community organizer in the rural South set him on a course of public service and advocacy. During the Obama Administration, he served as the Senior Counselor to the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management. In that role, he was the director’s principal lead on all LGBTQ issues affecting the civil service. Throughout the 1970s and early eighties, he held positions at ACTION, the former umbrella agency for the Peace Corps and VISTA. While there, he became a labor activist on behalf of federal employees. Vic is the author of the new book Bending Toward Justice, A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign. |
Show Notes
Season 1, Episode 22 Credits
Guest: Vic Basile Host: Liz Cavallaro Host: Bree Fram Audio: Frieda Garcia |