Mark Allan Segal was born on 1951 and is an American social activist and author.
14 Facts About Mark Segal
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Mark Segal participated in the Stonewall riots and was one of the original founders of the Gay Liberation Front where he created its Gay Youth program.
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Mark Segal was the founder and former president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild and purchased the Philadelphia Gay News.
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Mark Segal has won numerous journalism awards for his column "Mark my Works," including best column by The National Newspaper Association, Suburban Newspaper Association and The Society of Professional Journalists.
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Mark Segal is Jewish and originally from the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia.
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Mark Segal was a member of The Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day committee, which organized the first Gay Pride parade in 1970.
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In 1972, after being thrown out of dance competition for dancing with a male lover, Mark Segal crashed the evening news broadcast of WPVI-TV, an act that became known as a "zap" and that he helped popularize.
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Mark Segal repeated the action during many other television broadcasts.
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The publication was inspired by activist Frank Kameny, whom Mark Segal first met in 1970.
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In 1988, Mark Segal had a televised debate with a Philadelphia city councilman, Francis Rafferty, about Gay Pride Month.
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On May 17,2018, Mark Segal donated 16 cubic feet of personal papers and artifacts to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
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Mark Segal is the author of And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality, a memoir of his life and experience as a gay rights activist.
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Mark Segal's friends include several gay activists, including Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, Harry Hay, and Troy Perry.
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On July 5,2014, Mark Segal married his partner of 10 years, Jason Villemez.