Steve Endean

Steve Endean is an American activist, and the founder and first CEO of the Human Rights Campaign an organization that supports the LGBT community worldwide.

Early life
Steve Endean was born in Iowa, but moved to Minnesota at age 20 to get his degree in political science. he died shorty after

Life and achievements
He originally created the Minnesota Committee for Gay Rights. Most of his LGBT support and activism was for Minnesota, but it grew into the Human Rights Campaign, an organization for America and is becoming more worldwide as countries gain LGBT acceptance. He was CEO until he gave the position to Vic Bastile.

Later life and death
He died from AIDS on August 4, 1993. He was 44, just two days away from his 45th birthday. He had contracted AIDS in 1985, eight years earlier.