Mark Segal

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

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

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.

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

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

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