LGBT Pioneer Launches Three-City Book Tour Oct 6-8

LGBT Pioneer Mark Segal will release his long-anticipated memoir, AND THEN WE DANCED (Akashic/Open Lens, October 6, 2015) with a three-city book launch to celebrate LGBT History Month.

New York City - Tuesday October 6th, 2015
NBC-TV Headquarters
30 Rockefeller Center, Room 11A
New York, NY 10112
7:30pm-9:00pm

Last time Mark was in 30 Rock he was arrested and taken out in handcuffs after disrupting the live broadcast of The Today Show to end LGBT invisibility on Network TV. Now 42 years later that Network is hosting his Book Launch. Mark will be joined by LGBT leaders, pioneers and historians to mark the occasion.

Philadelphia, PA - Wednesday October 7th, 2015
Independence Hall Visitor's Center
With an introduction by Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen, Former Governor Ed Rendell, Congressman Bob Brady and Democrat nominee for Mayor Jim Kenney
1 N Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA 19106
5:30pm-7:00pm

Washington, DC - Thursday October 8th, 2015
Comcast NBCUniversal
With an introduction by U.S. Senator Robert Casey and NBC's Andrea Mitchell
300 New Jersey Avenue, NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
5:30pm-7:00pm

In AND THEN WE DANCED: Traveling The Road to LGBT Equality (Akashic/Open Lens), Mark Segal chronicles his involvement in this crucial chapter of American history as a prolific activist for LGBT rights. Beginning at the Stonewall riots of 1969, his disruption of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite broadcast in 1973 and his various attempts through the years to capture the nation's attention with radical LGBT demonstrations. He has been honored with numerous awards in journalism (NLGJA), communications (NAMIC), and also a Lifetime Achievement Award from the GLBT Alliance.

"An enticing frontline account of the fight for equal rights for LGBTQ people in the U.S."
-Publishers Weekly

"With great verve and spirit, Segal has rendered a lively and dramatic memoir of the early days of the gay rights struggle; the infighting over strategies and objectives; the long, hard road of progress; and a look at the challenges still ahead."
-Booklist

"A jovial yet passionately delivered self-portrait inspiring awareness about LGBT history from one of the movement's true pioneers."
-Kirkus Reviews

For more information about the book, click here.

Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.