Latest NLGJA Hall of Fame Inductees Include the Walter Cronkite 'Zapper'
At the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) annual convention running today through Sunday in Boston, freelance writer Michael Luongo and The Huffington Post’s Lila Shapiro will be feted. They are this year’s NLGJA “Journalist of the Year” and “LGBT Journalist of the Year,” respectively.
Saturday night, the organization will also induct two journalists into its Hall of Fame: the late Bob Ross, founder of the Bay Area Reporter, and Mark Segal, founder of the Philadelphia Gay News:
In 1972, after being thrown out of a dance competition for dancing with his male partner, Segal crashed the evening news broadcast of WPVI-TV, in what became known as a “zap.”
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