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Mark Allan Segal (born 1951)〔"Mark Segal and his Famous TV Zaps". ''GayRVA'', 10/8/2010.〕 is an American journalist.〔("Mark Segal, The Gay Raiders And Walter Cronkite: That’s The Way It Was". )〕 He is the president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild〔http://www.eriegaynews.com/aboutegn/credits.php?recordid=23827〕 and the founder and publisher of Philadelphia Gay News.〔William Bender. ("Phila. Gay News articles examine homosexuality in U.S. history". ) ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 10/13/2011.〕 Segal is originally from Mount Airy, Philadelphia and attended Germantown High School and Temple University.〔http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/mark_segal/Mark_Segal_Im_Gay_Jewish_and_old.html〕 ==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.〔Edward Alwood. ("Walter Cronkite and the Gay Rights Movement". ) ''Washington Post'', 7/26/2009.〕 In 1975, he went on a hunger strike on behalf of the passage of a law to guarantee equal rights for homosexuals.〔"Gay Activist Goes on Hunger Strike". ''Daytona Beach Morning Journal'', 12/1/1975.〕 In 1988, he had a televised debate with a Philadelphia city councilman, Francis Rafferty, about Gay Pride Month.〔"On TC, Rafferty and Segal debate gay pride month". ''Philadelphia Daily News'', 7/7/1988.〕 He was a friend of the pioneering gay activist Barbara Gittings.〔Adam Satariano. ("Barbara Gittings, Pioneer Gay Activist, Dies of Cancer at 75". ) ''Bloomberg'', 2/19/2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Segal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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