Drago Carlos Pilsel (born 21 September 1962) is an Argentine Croatian journalist and human rights activist.
When it comes to other newspapers or magazines, the most notable are: Feral Tribune, Globus, Glas Koncila, Novi Plamen, and Slobodna Dalmacija.
He also wrote and corresponded for foreign media companies, most notably El País (Spain), BBC (United Kingdom), Monitor (Montenegro), and Nezavisne novine (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Drago Pilsel was one of the founding members of the Croatian Helsinki Committee, a human rights watch organization.
He gained public attention during the mid-1990s when he investigated and located Serbian victims after the end of the Croatian independence war.
In 2002, Pilsel lead the first Zagreb Gay Pride which at the time was a great civil rights achievement.
A few days earlier to that, Pilsel critically attacked a bishop and said that the Croatian Church was: "an inhuman, nationalist, catholic sect from which he wants to stay far away."
[5] In 2017, Drago Pilsel has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
[6] Drago Pilsel abandoned nationalism and right-wing ideology during his time with the Franciscan order in Argentina.
[8] During the Croatian parliamentary election, 2011, Pilsel ran the campaign for the independent candidate Ivan Grubišić.
Pilsel subsequently admitted having an undisclosed "analytical project" with Komšić charging 1000 EUR monthly for his services, denying that he was doing a PR disguised as journalistic commentaries.