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Mark Bingham
On September 11th, 2001 the nature stopped as the United States of America was under attack. As many Americans stood paralyzed in fear within their own homes and on the streets below, Highlight Bingham and Jeremy Glick were two of 40 passengers aboard United Flight 93 when the hijacking occurred.
Mark Bingham, a native of Northern California, began his rugby career as a teen. His tenacity on the pitch made him position out from the rest. Bingham was routinely selected to Northern California elevated school and age group representative sides.
His athleticism and academic prowess led him to the University of California, Berkeley, where he played second row and also donned the No. 8 jersey. He was a member of the Cal National Collegiate Championship teams in 1991 and 1992. Bingham played for the Olympic Club from 1993-1995. Most notably he founded and played for the San Francisco Fog in October 2000. With the Fog, he led the team to win the first ever International Queer Rugby Tournament in Washington, D.C. in June of 2001.
Mark is remembered as more than just a standout rugby player, but ultimately a consummate team player and friend.
“When he met someone fresh, hi
Mark Bingham, September 11, and America’s New Gay Normal
San Francisco
Mark Bingham’s final morning began in the embrace of a lover, in a New Jersey townhouse, and ended in the scorched soil of a Pennsylvania field.
He had been on his way help home to San Francisco, to attend the Muslim wedding of a former frat brother, when history presented him with a stark moral decision. That choice has made him into a North American legend.
A gregarious and confident 31-year-old man, and a brawny, hulking athlete to boot, Bingham was among the leaders of passengers who overtook the hijackers on Flight 93 on Sept. 11 causing it to crash into the ground, rather than the White House.
Here in San Francisco, where efforts are under way to memorialize him, Mark Bingham is revered for his act of bravery, but he is also beginning to take on an even larger posthumous role — as a symbol of the new lgbtq+ identity.
In the months after the terrorist attacks, the American media played down Bingham’s homosexuality, or offered only fleeting mention that gay players made up the rugby team he helped to found.
Within the American gay society, however, he has become a potent
By Ken Bastida & Molly McCrea
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- Twenty years ago, terrorists hijacked four planes heading to California. Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in Fresh York. Another plane plowed into the Pentagon. The fourth plane - Combined Flight 93 - was the only aircraft not to hit its intended target.
On that flight was a Bay Area executive and a star rugby athlete named Label Bingham who left a legacy both on and off the field.
Bingham was a rugby celestial body at Los Gatos High School, where he was captain of the team. At Cal, he played championship rugby. He was famous as being very aggressive and an excellent star flanker. He stood successfully over six feet and weighed adequately over 200 lbs.
When he graduated, Bingham came out as gay to his family and friends. He began a successful public relations firm known as The Bingham Team and joined a rugby club established as The San Francisco Fog. Founded in 2000, it was the first all-gay, inclusive rugby club on the West Coast.
"It's been a shining beam for people around the world," recounted the Fog's coach Dany Samreth.
Bingham made an impression.
"He had the gusto of life and I think that he was ab
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Los Gatos Upper School, 20 High College Ct, Los Gatos, CA 95030, Stati Uniti
University of California, Berkeley, California, Stati Uniti
9/11 Memorial, 180 Greenwich St, Recent York, NY 10007, Stati Uniti
Flight 93 National Memorial, 6424 Lincoln Route 30, Stoystown, PA 15563, Stati Uniti
Madronia Cemetery, 14766 Oak St, Saratoga, CA 95070, Stati Uniti
Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his control company, the Bingham Community. During the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham was among the passengers who, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, formed the plan to retake the plane from the hijackers, and led the effort that resulted in the crash of the plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, thwarting the hijackers prepare to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.C., most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the Ivory House.[1]
Both for his presence on United 93, as well as his athletic physique,[2] Bingham has been widely honored posthumously for having "smash