Mark Bingham

Sydney beats San Francisco to win gay rugby world championship

PinkNews
June 8th, 2012

MANCHESTER, England -- Gay Australian rugby team the Sydney Convicts have taken home the 2012 Bingham Cup, becoming gay rugby champions of the world.

They beat the San Francisco Fog 22 to 5 to win the accolade in Manchester this weekend.

The three-day tournament, which took place in Manchester, saw 37 teams from 12 countries compete.

Named in honour of Mark Bingham, a gay rugby player who died on United Flight 93 in September 11, the biennial tournament sees teams from cities rather than countries take part.

SUNDAY: SiriusXM OutQ to report on "LGBT Stories of 9/11"

SDGLN Staff
September 10th, 2011

NEW YORK -- SiriusXM’s LGBT channel OutQ (Channel 108) will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by reliving the events through the eyes and ears of everyday LGBT Americans affected by the tragedy and by honoring those lost within the community, including United Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham.

OutQ News anchor Tim Curran traveled to Los Gatos, Calif., this summer for an in-depth and personal conversation with Bingham’s mother Alice Hoagland conducted at her home.

Mother of 9/11 Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham outspoken on gay rights, other causes

Ailene Voisin – Sacramento Bee
September 10th, 2011

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Alice Hoagland has her causes, five of them exactly, which she recites precisely and without prompting. Improving airline safety. Eradication of terrorism. Promoting world peace. Protecting the rights of gays and lesbians. Encouraging communities, schools and families to increase support for youth sports.

She likes to say she speaks with the full-throated roar of her late son, Mark Bingham, a gay man who loved rugby, an only child who adored his mother.

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