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Two gay men, Mark Bgham and the Rev. Mychal Judge, are remembered as hero for their acts on Sept. 11, 2001.

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PASSENGER ON JET: GAY HERO OR HERO WHO WAS GAY?

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Bgham, a former llege gby player wh a 6-foot-5, 220-pound build, was a gay public relatns executive wh an active datg life.

EXCLIVE VIO REVEALS GAY 9/11 HERO MARK BGHAM ON RUGBY PCH, BEHD THE CAMERA

Todd Beamer was a relig fay man. Mark Bgham was gay, a PR executive and a keen sportsman. The story of flight 93 shows how the two very different men beme hero of Ameri. * gay man on flight 93 *

And, acrdg to those who knew them, they both went through a journey of acceptg their a lot of young gay men of his generatn, Bgham stggled to some gree wh his sexual orientatn. Even when he first started playg a gay gby league San Francis, he had his face blurred photos the lol prs. ”Mark relled how one night, after Bgham reloted to New York and moved wh her, he nfsed he wanted “to wre the Great Amerin Novel — but gay.

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Mark Bgham, passenger on Uned Airl flight that crashed Pennsylvania after passengers fought terrorist hijackers, has bee one of most celebrated hero of Sept 11; has also bee in among gays; gay civil rights groups ntend sexual orientatn of those hero is irrelevant; photo (M) * gay man on flight 93 *

”“So that you’d have to read high school, and people would unrstand that gay people were always among and were totally normal and a part of our liv, ” she Moulton, the Rev.

He said the FDNY chapla “was out to iars and iends and people he uld tst — or people he thought g out to would help, like parents wantg to support their gay children. “In his journals, [Judge] talks about beg at peace wh his sexualy and grateful that God had ma him gay, ” said Francis DeBernardo, thor of the upg bgraphy “Mychal Judge: Take Me Where You Want Me to Go.

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He even beme a key figure the creatn of the Internatnal Gay Rugby league months before he died, Bgham was at the league’s first vatnal May 2001, helpg the San Francis Fog feat the hometown team, the Washgton, D. C., Renegas, a 19-0 the time of the crash, Bgham was workg to brg a gay gby team to New York, which led to the formatn of the Gotham Knights.

GAY GBY PLAYER MARK BGHAM WAS A HERO OF 9/11

“Mark’s two worlds were gby and beg gay, and when those worlds llid, he was ecstatic, ” Mark Rev. Courty Brendan FayAfter the terrorist attacks, when beme public that Judge was gay “there was a big bate Catholic circl, ” said DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for cln for LGBTQ Catholics.

“People uldn’t rolve the fact that a gay person uld be holy and selfls, ” he said. I wasn’t even totally nvced he was a gay man until I started dog the rearch [for the book].

”But, he add, Judge’s whole sense of mistry, of beg of service to others, me om his g to terms wh beg gay.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MAN ON FLIGHT 93

Rememberg Gay 9/11 Hero Mychal Judge and Mark Bgham .

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