Philadelphia Gay News

Philadelphia Gay News

"Philadelphia Gay News" (PGN) is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Philadelphia area. PGN is a member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild.

PGN was founder by Mark Segal.fact|date=July 2008 He was one of the founders and former president of both The National Gay Press Association and the National Gay Newspaper Guild. He also is the founder and publisher of the award winning Philadelphia Gay News which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. In 1973 Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60% of American householdsfact|date=July 2008. Segal went on to disrupt The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and Barbara Walters on the Today show. The trade newspaper Variety claimed that Segal had cost the industry $750,000 in production, tape delays and lost advertising revenue.fact|date=July 2008

PGN recently coordinated a network of local gay publications nationally to celebrate October as gay history month, with a combined print run reaching over a half million people. The PGN waited 15 years before being granted membership of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association one of the nation's oldest and most respected organizations for daily and weekly newspapers.fact|date=July 2008 The 15 year wait ended after the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette joined forces and called for PGN's membership.fact|date=July 2008

External links

* [http://www.epgn.com/ Philadelphia Gay News Online]


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