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'''Mark Allan Segal''' (b. 1953<ref>"Mark Segal and his Famous TV Zaps". ''[[GayRVA]]'', 10/8/2010.</ref>) is a [[gay]] activist.<ref>http://www.philebrity.com/2009/07/20/mark-segal-the-gay-raiders-and-walter-cronkite-thats-the-way-it-was/</ref> He is currently serving as the president of the [[National Gay Newspaper Guild]] and the [[
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 (action)|zap]]" and that he helped popularize. He would pull the same stunt during many other television broadcasts.<ref>Edward Alwood. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072402084.html "Walter Cronkite and the Gay Rights Movement".] ''[[Washington Post]]'', 7/26/2009.</ref>
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