Mark Bingham

Remember, NYFD Chief Palmer and Fire Marshal Puka, who understood the danger, ran in to save others and died so that others may live.

Remember Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, and Jeremy Glick, who gathered intelligence, planned, said the Lord's Prayer, then shouted their war cry, let's roll, then counterattacked on Flight 93.

Remember Liz, Jeremy's wife, telling him, you are brave, you should do this.

Then, having sent her husband to his death, threw up.

And it's something that Watermark Out News went ahead and posted.

They actually went ahead... dug up their archives and brought out their 9-11 issue and it showed a couple of the different stories of the LGBTQ individuals that were affected on that day and so I want to go ahead and highlight gay flight 93 passenger mark Bingham who joined other passengers in fighting the hijackers in Pennsylvania and gay f4 Fire Department of New York chaplain, Father Michael Judge, who died while responding at the World Trade Center.

American Airlines co-pilot David Charbois.

Yeah, I think that's what it was.

And for the final story, we're gonna be talking about arguably one of the most well-known stories from that terrible day.

This is the story of Mark Bingham and how his bravery helped possibly save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives that day.

Mark was born on May 22nd, 1970, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Alice and Gerald Bingham.

His parents divorced when he was two, and he split his time between them, bouncing from Miami, Florida, to southern California before finally settling in San Jose in 1983.

Mark in particular was honored in various ways over the years.

The Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament, a biennial international rugby union competition predominantly for gay and bisexual men, was established in 2002 in his memory.

The Eureka Valley Recreation Center's gymnasium in San Francisco was renamed to the Mark Bingham Gymnasium in August 2002.

And beginning in 2005, the UC Berkeley Foundation and the California Alumni Association named the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni in his honor.

You know, I'm in.

And, you know, I think, you know, coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, there's no better indicator or ambassador for that than Mark Bingham.

Mark was on, you know, United 93 that stormed the cockpit.

And he was one of those guys that put his hand up.

I'm in.

Let's go for it.

And, you know, rightfully so, the Mark Bingham Cup, the World Cup for gay rugby players was just played not too long ago.

So, you know, we thank Mark for what he's done, but also I think it's a great opportunity indicator of what the sport does for people.

there, I'm Kev McGrath, and on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks in America, we remember some of the LGBTQ plus heroes who stepped up.

First gay PR exec and rugby player Mark Bingham, who was on the hijacked Flight 93 to San Francisco.

We think Al-Qaeda terrorists planned to crash the plane in Washington, D.C., either into the Capitol building or the White House.

31-year-old Mark called his mother, Alice Hoagland, from the aircraft.