Mark Segal
Mark Allan Segal (b. 1953[1]) is a gay activist.[2] He is currently serving as the president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild and the National Gay Newspaper Association.[3] He is sometimes cited as "the dean of gay American journalism".[4]
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 would pull the same stunt during many other television broadcasts.[5]
He is the founder of Gay Raiders, a Philadelphia based activism group, and the Philadelphia Gay News.[6] In 1975 he went on a hunger strike in favor of a bill to guarantee equal rights.[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 Barbara Gittings.[9]
References
- ^ "Mark Segal and his Famous TV Zaps". GayRVA, 10/8/2010.
- ^ "Mark Segal, The Gay Raiders And Walter Cronkite: That’s The Way It Was".
- ^ http://www.eriegaynews.com/aboutegn/credits.php?recordid=23827
- ^ William Bender. "Phila. Gay News articles examine homosexuality in U.S. history". The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/13/2011.
- ^ Edward Alwood. "Walter Cronkite and the Gay Rights Movement". Washington Post, 7/26/2009.
- ^ Thom Nickels (2002). "Gay and lesbian Philadelphia". Great Britain: Arcadia Publishing.
- ^ "Gay Activist Goes on Hunger Strike". Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 12/1/1975.
- ^ "ON TV, RAFFERTY AND SEGAL DEBATE GAY PRIDE MONTH". Philadelphia Daily News, 7/7/1988.
- ^ Adam Satariano. "Barbara Gittings, Pioneer Gay Activist, Dies of Cancer at 75". Bloomberg, 2/19/2007.