The man who gave his name to the World Cup of Gay Rugby was a passnate sportsman and hero of Uned Airl Flight 93
Contents:
- ALICE HOAGLAND, GRIEVG INSPIRATN GAY RUGBY, DI AT 71
- PASSENGER ON JET: GAY HERO OR HERO WHO WAS GAY?
- EXCLIVE VIO REVEALS GAY 9/11 HERO MARK BGHAM ON RUGBY PCH, BEHD THE CAMERA
- ALICE HOAGLAND, GAY-GBY GODMOTHER AND 9/11 ACTIVIST, DI
- MARK BGHAM: THE 9/11 HERO BEHD GBY'S GAY WORLD CUP
- GAY GBY PLAYER MARK BGHAM WAS A HERO OF 9/11
ALICE HOAGLAND, GRIEVG INSPIRATN GAY RUGBY, DI AT 71
Two gay men, Mark Bgham and the Rev. Mychal Judge, are remembered as hero for their acts on Sept. 11, 2001. * flight 93 gay rugby player *
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.
PASSENGER ON JET: GAY HERO OR HERO WHO WAS GAY?
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) * flight 93 gay rugby player *
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.
EXCLIVE VIO REVEALS GAY 9/11 HERO MARK BGHAM ON RUGBY PCH, BEHD THE CAMERA
Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay gby movement that her own son, Mark Bgham, helped set motn shortly before he perished the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the hero of Flight 93, has died. * flight 93 gay rugby player *
”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.
”“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.
ALICE HOAGLAND, GAY-GBY GODMOTHER AND 9/11 ACTIVIST, DI
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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. “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].
MARK BGHAM: THE 9/11 HERO BEHD GBY'S GAY WORLD CUP
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. * flight 93 gay rugby player *
”But, he add, Judge’s whole sense of mistry, of beg of service to others, me om his g to terms wh beg gay.
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.
GAY GBY PLAYER MARK BGHAM WAS A HERO OF 9/11
“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. Acrdg to DeBernardo, Eslante knew Judge was volved the gay muny and wanted New Ways Mistry to help fd people who knew him to provi firsthand acunts or documents “that will give a clearer, more tailed picture of his life, spirualy, and mistry, ” DeBernardo wrote a 2017 post on the mistry’s webse, pecially “any rmatn regardg a possible miracle attributed to Fr.