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Vic Basile to Leave HRCF
January 19...Victor J. Basile today an-
nounced his resignation as executive direc-
tor of the Human Rights Campaign Fund
(HRCF) after six years of lobbying, fun-
draising, strategizing and organizing for
the nation’s gay and lesbian community.

Basile, named HRCF’s executive di-
rector in 1983, helped transform the gay
rights group into the largest and most
powerful lesbian and gay political action
committte (PAC) and lobbying force in the
U.S.

Last spring, the Federal Elections
Commission ranked HRCF the ninth larg-
est independent PAC in the U.S. and the
24th largest PAC overall (out of more than
4000). HCRF gave more than $400,000 in
political contributions to some 111 candi-
dates for federal office during the last elec-
tion cycle.

“Serving HRCF and the lesbian and
gay community has been one of the most
exhilarating and fulfilling experiences in
my life,” said Basile. “But now the time is
right to move on.”

HCRF co-chairs Rosen and Forester
will form a search committee to select
Basile’s successor. Basile will be an active
participant in the choice of his successor
and will remain as executive director until
a replacement is announced.

Lambda Lets Its Fingers Do the Walking

January 20, 198) Lambda Legal De-
fense and Education Fund announced to-
day that the New York City Human Rights
Commission has made a preliminary deter-
mination that NYNEX Yellow Pages vio-
lated city law by refusing to create a Yellow
Pages heading for gay and lesbian groups.

In May 1988, Lambda file a sexual ori-
entation discrimination complaint against
NYNEX on behalf on three New York-
based gay groups, alleging that NYNEX’s
refusal to include a gay and lesbian heading
in the Yellow Pages violated New York
City law. The complaining groups are Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

   

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nity Services Center, and Heritage of Pride.
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public hearing, NYNEX announced an
agreement to restructure its New York and '
New England directories to allow for a sub.
heading for lesbian and gay organizations,
The sub-headings would come under a
general “Social and Human Services“
heading and would include othe sub—head.

ings for women’s, disability and children’s
groups, among others. 

Curtain Closes on Reagan AIDS Era l

January 23, l989...Former President
Ronald Reagan has packed his bags and
retired to California, ending a long, contro-
versial era of White House response to the
AIDS epidemic described by activists asa I
national “legacy of shame.” I

From 1982 and 1983, in which Reagan l
requested zero AIDS dollars, through the l
1990 budget, Reagan requested substan-
tially less than his own federal health agen-
cies asked for and what Congress finally
appropriated. The only exception was fis-
cal year 1989, when the budgets matched. l
However, the 1990 final Reagan AIDS
budget is some $400 million less thanre
quested by agencies.

Vic Basile ofHRCF and other activists
are more optimistic aboutPresidentGeorge l
Bush. They point to Bush’s endorsemenlol
the President’s HIV Commission report
and his call for AIDS anti-discrimination
protections as positive signs of a more
sensitive White House AIDS response.

Vermonters Absent on Federal L&G
Civil Rights Bill
January 25, 1989...The Lesbian and
Gay Civil Rights Bill was reintroducedirt
the US Senate today by Senator Alan Cran l
ston (D—Calif.) and into the US House of
Representatives yesterday by Congress»
man Ted Weiss (D-NY/17) and Hefllll
Waxman (D-Calif/24).
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