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September 11, 2012

Mom of gay 9/11 hero Mark Bingham remembers

'Being Mark’s mother has been in turns difficult, frightening, whimsical, beautiful and downright fun'

It was 11 years ago today that Alice Hoagland lost her son, Mark Bingham, in the September 11 terrorist attacks against the US.

Bingham was a gay man who among the heroes on United Flight 93 who are thought to have fought their hijackers. The plane went down in Pennsylvania instead of a government building in Washington D.C. as was planned.

March 29, 2012

Mother of gay 9-11 hero has message for Carson Daly

'The world has its share of strong, heroic gay men'

Carson Daly's jokes about gay men not being able to subdue a crazed pilot on a JetBlue flight to Las Vegas this week has drawn a response from the mother of the late Mark Bingham, a gay man who among the heroes on United Flight 93 who are thought to have fought their hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001.