LGBT-110 Segal

Mark Segal was born January 12, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Germantown High School and later Temple University. He moved to New York City in 1969 where he became heavily involved with the LGBT civil rights movement. Segal participated in the Stonewall Riots, was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, and was a member of the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day Committee. In 1976, he founded the Philadelphia Gay News, a weekly LGBT newspaper publication in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is still published today. He has continued to serve as an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, serving on the Joint Diversity Council of Comcast NBC/Universal and working with the Obama administration to plan and open The John C. Anderson Apartments, the nation’s first “LGBT Friendly” senior affordable housing apartment building in 2013.