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)
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- PASSENGER ON JET: GAY HERO OR HERO WHO WAS GAY?
- REMEMBERG FEARLS 9/11 HERO MARK BGHAM, THE GAY ATHLETE WHO SAVED UNTLS LIV
- GAY
- FRANCIS J. GAY, 93
- GAY PRI
- 93 GAY DR #93, VENTURA, CA 93003
PASSENGER ON JET: GAY HERO OR HERO WHO WAS GAY?
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His heroism later spired many to rensir gay September 11, 2001, terrorists ed plan to h the Tw Towers and the Pentagon. Celebrated as a gay hero after 9/11, Bgham was a 31-year-old public relatns executive — who nearly missed his flight that fateful morng.
And Mark Bgham beme a gay in. “The media portrayal of gays (lots of by gays themselv) is as effemate, ” openly gay nservative mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote the days after the terrorist attack. Another iend, Hani Durzy, said, “My feelg is that if told he would bee a gay in he would lgh.
REMEMBERG FEARLS 9/11 HERO MARK BGHAM, THE GAY ATHLETE WHO SAVED UNTLS LIV
Twenty-one years sce the horrifyg 9/11 terror attacks 2001, we remember gay athlete Mark Bgham, who saved hundreds of liv. * gay 93 *
Then he would s back and thk, ‘But if this is gog to do some good for the gay muny, then so be — good. Bgham, a 31-year-old public relatns executive who played gby for the Universy of California, has bee one of the most celebrated hero of that has also bee an in among gays.
The man tearfully logized by Senator John McCa of Arizona is also the subject of a ver story and Person of the Year The Advote, the natnal gay and lbian biweekly news magaze. He has spired a Web se,, and plans for a permanent memorial his honor the Castro, San Francis's famo gay he was gay might seem irrelevant to any discsn about his role Flight 93, many gay rights advot say. 11 hero is not really irrelevant, gay civil rights groups ntend, at a time when openly gay men and lbians are barred om the ary and when gay upl do not have the same rights as heterosexual on.
''When you ask what difference do make if the hero were gay, I say I agree wh you, '' said Judy Wier, edor chief of The Advote, which voted s Oct. 23 issue to ''the gay hero of the terrorist tragedy. ''The importance of intifyg gay hero beme pecially important, gay advot say, when the Rev.
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Pat Robertson asserted, jt two days after the attacks, that an angry God had allowed the terrorists to succeed bee the Uned Stat had bee a natn of abortn, homosexualy, secular schools and urts and the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn. Garry, executive director of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (Glaad), which has been cril of news anizatns that did not mentn Mr. ''I don't md at all that he is beg intified as a gay hero, though that was jt one aspect of him.
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Bgham's appeal as a gay hero, or a hero who was gay, is that he was not a Michelangelo Signorile, a gay journalist, what was notable about the early verage of the Sept. ''For many gays and lbians, Mr.
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Signorile said, there has been a real tensn between two ways of lookg at the issue of whether Mark Bgham should be seen as an Amerin who acted heroilly and who happened to be gay, or whether he should be honored as an example of a gay man who beme a hero. ''In the gay muny you see both of the stras, an ambivalence bee many have both of the feelgs, '' Mr. ' ''A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Passenger on Jet: Gay Hero or Hero Who Was Gay?.
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Francis J. “Frank” Gay, 93, of LaGrange Park, died May 4, 2022 at home. * gay 93 *
The openly gay gby player once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner of six years, Pl Holm. Mark Bgham, a popular sportsman, me out as gay after graduatg om the Universy of California, Berkley, aged 21. Was he a ‘gay hero’ or a ‘hero who was gay’?
Jt two days after the 9/11 attacks, two reverends on CBN asserted that God, angered by homosexualy and abortn, had allowed the attacks to happen.
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She was remembered by Internatnal Gay Rugby as “s biggt supporter and the surrogate mother for many gby players who found a way forward through their volvement wh gby and the Bgham Cup. “The legacy Bgham rved out is not fotten, ” chair of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) Ben Owen once said reverence of Bgham to PkNews. “Mark was stmental sparkg what has bee the ternatnal gay and clive gby movement today as a member of and founr of some of the first ever clubs.
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