indeed, mark segal is my guest. good morning. how are you? >> tamala, it is great to be with you again. >> it is good to be with you. the book is called "and then i danced." i was joking with you that you were the forrest gump of the gay movement. if it happened, you were there. and that's where my first question comes from. you grew up in philadelphia in a time when you're ashamed to be poor. you're ashamed to be jewish in a non-jewish neighborhood. it is not an easy place to be gay. you see a family member beaten and run out of the family for being gay. and yet, at an early age, you decided to live life out. many people would have said, "i'm finding a closet and going to the back of it." why did you decide to do that? >> i had this incredible grandmother, fanny weinstein, who, at age 13, took me to my first civil rights march. she was a suffragette. she taught me how the family had fought to get out of europe during the pogroms. she talked about our family who struggled through the holocaust. she was a fighter. and she instilled that fight

indeed, mark segal is my guest. good morning. how are you?> tamala, it is great to be with you again. >> it is good to be with you. the book is called "and then i danced." i was joking with you that you were the forrest gump of the gay movement. if it happened, you were there. and that's where my first question comes from. you grew up in philadelphia in a time when you're ashamed to be poor. you're ashamed to be jewish in a non-jewish neighborhood. it is not an easy place to be gay. you see a family member beaten and run out of the family for being gay. and yet, at an early age, you decided to live life out. many people would have said, "i'm finding a closet and going to the back of it." why did you decide to do that? >> i had this incredible

. >>> well, anyone who knows mark segal will will tell you he has been on the battle field for a longting for the rights of the lgbt community in every way imaginable. >> always back, to when he was 18, in 1969 mark formed a group to fight for the right of gay is a after witnessing the stone wall riots where police and gay demonstrators clashed in new york city. then there was december 11th, 1973 when mark disrupted the live broadcast of the "cbs evening news" with walter kronkite, by sitting on the desk and yelling about gays protesting prejudice. wow. mark, you have come a long way and philadelphia gay news, of course, he created. he serves as founder and publisher of that publication. it is a remarkable life that you can read more about in a very good new book and then i danced, traveling the road to lgbt equality. mark is in the studio with us. >> yes, you had me here for barbecue chip. >> that is true. >> yes. >> did you go to the game. >> yes. >> so lets talk about this book then. can you take us back to 1973 when you stormed that newscast. >> absolutely. in 1937, if you recall,

. >> mark seagraves is with first responders training for the wore the. >> first, we begin with amelia segal with an update. >> we are going to be track areas of rain throughout the day today. otherwise, breezy and much cooler. temperatures only in the mid to upper 50s this afternoon. expect rain, soggy. the heaviest later in the day will continue to track rain and showers at times on saturday. some dry time as well. it is breezy tomorrow. it is windy on saturday. the latest on joaquin pulling it further to the east. not as big of an impact on our area which is great news. unrelated to joaquin, most of us are under a flash flood watch. this begins tomorrow morning. it is going to run through your saturday evening. we have 3-6 inches of rain is possible. the heaviest rain tomorrow evening. that's when we will have the greatest concern for some flash flooding on into saturday morning. even 2-3 inches of rain could lead to flash flooding, specially in northern virginia, barbara. >> amelia, thanks. in the district, all eyes will be on the 17th street levee, to see if it can hold up to the potent