Mark Segal

Mark Allan Segal (born 1951)[1] is an American journalist.[2] He is the president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild[3] and the founder and publisher of Philadelphia Gay News.[4]

Segal is originally from Mount Airy, Philadelphia and attended Germantown High School and Temple University.[5]

Gay rights activism

In 1972, after being thrown out of dance competition for dancing with a male lover, Segal crashed the evening news broadcast of WPVI-TV, an act that became known as a "zap" and that he helped popularize. He repeated the action during many other television broadcasts.[6]

In 1975, he went on a hunger strike on behalf of the passage of a law to guarantee equal rights for homosexuals.[7] In 1988, he had a televised debate with a Philadelphia city councilman, Francis Rafferty, about Gay Pride Month.[8]

He was a friend of the pioneering gay activist Barbara Gittings.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Segal and his Famous TV Zaps". GayRVA, 10/8/2010.
  2. ↑ "Mark Segal, The Gay Raiders And Walter Cronkite: That’s The Way It Was".
  3. ↑ http://www.eriegaynews.com/aboutegn/credits.php?recordid=23827
  4. ↑ William Bender. "Phila. Gay News articles examine homosexuality in U.S. history". The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/13/2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/mark_segal/Mark_Segal_Im_Gay_Jewish_and_old.html
  6. ↑ Edward Alwood. "Walter Cronkite and the Gay Rights Movement". Washington Post, 7/26/2009.
  7. ↑ "Gay Activist Goes on Hunger Strike". Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 12/1/1975.
  8. ↑ "On TC, Rafferty and Segal debate gay pride month". Philadelphia Daily News, 7/7/1988.
  9. ↑ Adam Satariano. "Barbara Gittings, Pioneer Gay Activist, Dies of Cancer at 75". Bloomberg, 2/19/2007.

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