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September 11, 2012
Aussie PM backs bid to host a gay rugby world cup

Julia Gillard supports Sydney Convicts' bid for Australia to host the Bingham Cup in 2014

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is backing a bid for the country to hold a gay rugby world cup contest.

The Sydney Convicts, a rugby club whose members are mostly gay men, will this week submit their bid to host the Bingham Cup in 2014.

'Australia is a sports-loving nation which also has an abiding commitment to diversity and mutual respect,' said Gillard, who has been criticized for her refusal to back gay marriage proposals.

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.

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.

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.

March 28, 2012
Carson Daly says gay people could not have stopped JetBlue pilot

Host of NBC's The Voice made comment during LA morning radio show

Carson Daly, host of NBC's The Voice, said on his LA morning radio show Wednesday (28 March) that gay people could not have subdued a JetBlue pilot who went berserk on a flight from New York to Las Vegas this week.