Rememberg Gay 9/11 Hero Mychal Judge and Mark Bgham

Contents:

• FOC ON MYCHAL JUDGE AS A 'GAY SAT' IS PROBLEMATIC
• COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?
• REMEMBERG FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE, THE GAY PRIT WHO PERISHED ON 9/11
• WRG THE IN OF 9/11 - REMEMBERG FR MYCHAL JUDGE, THE FIRST GAY SAT? #ALLSATS
• SAT OF 9/11: REMEMBERG FR. MYCHAL JUDGE AS A GAY PRIT
• FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE: BELOVED OUT GAY PRIT WAS FIRST RERD ATH OF 9/11 –
• SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT
• A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN
• CHURCH ASKED TO NSIR SATHOOD FOR GAY 9/11 HERO MYCHAL JUDGE: ‘HEAVEN IS FILLED WH LGBT+ PEOPLE’
• SUPPORT MOUNTS FOR SATHOOD OF MYCHAL JUDGE, GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11

FOC ON MYCHAL JUDGE AS A 'GAY SAT' IS PROBLEMATIC

But the Slate article foced on somethg else, suggtg that Judge might bee "the first gay sat. " I spect the long history of the church, and the fact that nonizatns were for many centuri handled by lol bishops, not the Vatin Curia, there were at least a few gay sats beforehand.

COULD FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE BE THE FIRST GAY SAT?

Nohels, I thk this foc on the fact that Judge was reportedly gay is problematic at several levels.

REMEMBERG FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE, THE GAY PRIT WHO PERISHED ON 9/11

I don't thk is news to anyone that there are some the Vatin Curia who will nsir the fact that Judge was gay a negative factor evaluatg his e, not a posive.

And there are others who would be prepared to see the mere fact of his beg gay as a matter of difference to his e, but who worry about the propaganda purpos to which his nonizatn would be put by people who have no love for the church or who ny the church's teachg on homosexualy.

WRG THE IN OF 9/11 - REMEMBERG FR MYCHAL JUDGE, THE FIRST GAY SAT? #ALLSATS

Another ncern about the mpaign to create the "first gay sat" has to do wh Judge's privacy. Acrdg to the Slate article, Judge chose to disclose the fact he was gay to very, very few people. I add passg that I fervently wish more people, gay and straight, chose to be as private as Judge was about his private life.

SAT OF 9/11: REMEMBERG FR. MYCHAL JUDGE AS A GAY PRIT

But I do not wish this or believe this bee he was gay, but bee he was a lovg, joyful prit who brought the love and joy of Christ to so many and died brgg the nsolatn of Christ to those nontg the horrors of 9/11.

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.

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.

FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE: BELOVED OUT GAY PRIT WAS FIRST RERD ATH OF 9/11 –

”“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. 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.

SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT

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.

A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN

“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.

CHURCH ASKED TO NSIR SATHOOD FOR GAY 9/11 HERO MYCHAL JUDGE: ‘HEAVEN IS FILLED WH LGBT+ PEOPLE’

“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.

SUPPORT MOUNTS FOR SATHOOD OF MYCHAL JUDGE, GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11

Bgham’s clost iends and fay were also ambivalent about his beg herald as a gay hero. “At first I really felt like his beg gay didn’t matter, ” Mark said.

“Don’t put out ‘gay hero’; he was jt a hero.

“We cid at that time we should enurage that perspective, ” Mark said, “bee the tth was there weren’t any gay hero. ” The gay gby muny wasted ltle time cidg how to honor their fallen brother: In June 2002, ls than a year after the attacks, the gural Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament —monly known as the Bgham Cup — was held San Francis wh eight 2018, the last year the biannual event was held, the petn weled 74 teams om 20 different untri.