{"id":2257,"date":"2015-11-29T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2015-11-29T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:33:29","slug":"excerpt-from-the-memoir-of-an-early-lgbt-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2257","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from the Memoir of an Early LGBT Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay journalist and long-time activist Mark Segal has penned a memoir of his perspective on the early LGBT movement, titled <em>And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality<\/em> (Akashic Books, 2015). <em>The Advocate<\/em> has posted an excerpt from the work, recounting Segal&#8217;s narrative of the Stonewall riots and aftermath, activism with the Gay Liberation Front, and celebrity encounters, among other things. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/books\/2015\/11\/17\/stonewall-white-house-mark-segals-gripping-memoir\">Read the Advocate&#8217;s excerpt here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay journalist and long-time activist Mark Segal has penned a memoir of his perspective on the early LGBT movement, titled And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality (Akashic Books, 2015). The Advocate has posted an excerpt from the work, recounting Segal&#8217;s narrative of the Stonewall riots and aftermath, activism with the Gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[505,503,504],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-glbt-activist","tag-mark-segal","tag-memoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}