The Man Who Fights for Your Rights, Mark Segal!
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From the Stonewall riots to disrupting a live broadcast on CBS, meet the
man who fights for your rights - Mark Segal. You won't believe your
eyes and ears as Mark Segal shares the many stories of his life with
Amber. The incredible things he has done to promote gay rights are too
numerous to count, and it proves that one man can make a huge difference
in this world.
Mark Segal
From pioneering history as a participant at the Stonewall
Riots, to being a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front NY 1969-71
and founder of Gay Youth (the nation’s first organization to deal with
bullying and suicide of LGBT youth), to being a marshal and member of
the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day Committee which created the
world’s first Gay Pride in 1970, Mark Segal has been involved in LGBT
civil rights since he moved to New York in May 1969.His campaign to end
the invisibility of the LGBT Community in media had him create the
campaign against the TV Networks to disrupt live TV shows, including The
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and the Today Show with Barbara
Walters. Those disruptions changed the media and forced them to start
covering the LGBT community fairly. As 5-time Emmy award winner Bruce
Vilanch states “Before Will and Grace and Ellen, there was Mark Segal.”
Almost 50 years after he disrupted NBC live broadcasts, today Mark
serves on the Joint Diversity Council of Comcast NBC/Universal to
continue to educate the network on LGBT issues.Founder of the
Philadelphia Gay News and past president of both The National LGBT Press
Association and The National Gay Newspaper Guild, Segal’s memoir “And
Then I Danced: Traveling the road to LGBT Equality," was named best book
by The National LGBT Journalists Association. His weekly syndicated
column, “Mark My Words” has won numerous awards from the Society of
Professional Journalist and the National Newspaper Association.He
partnered with the Obama administration to create and build the nation’s
first official “LGBT Friendly” senior affordable housing apartment
building. The 19.8 million dollar project, known as The John C. Anderson
Apartments, opened in 2013.
