LGBTQ+ heroes of 9/11

0:00Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw, 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, GPR exec and rugby player Mark Bingham, who was on the hijacked Flight 93 to San Francisco. We think Al Qaeda terrorist plan to crash the plane in Washington, DC, either into the Capitol building or the White House, that he won your mark called his mother Alice Hogan from the aircraft. This was about 15 minutes before he met his death. He said, Mom, I just want to tell you I love you. I'm on a flight from Newark to San Francisco. And there are three guys on board that turned out to be four who have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb. He became distracted as if someone was speaking to him. And then he came back on. There was noise on the line and then the phone went dead. Alice rang back and got through to Mark's voicemail. She wanted to fill him in on the day's other hijackings.

1:03Tell him that they're planning to use the plane as a suicide missile against some side on the ground and that nobody on the ground is going to help him, that he needs to group some people together. He's good at that because he's a rugby captain. Find some guys who are on board who can are equal to the job and break into the cockpit and take over the airplane. Alice who died nearly six years ago was speaking to the Camelot Show in 2014. We don't know if Mark ever heard a message, but he and three other passengers did bring down the plane in a field in Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed, but the lives of very many more were saved, but the aircraft just 20 minutes away from Washington. International inclusive rugby tournament, the Bingham Cup, was created in his honor in 2002 and takes place every other year. Pride Daily. Next, Father Michael Judge, a gay Catholic priest who's officially recognized as the first victim of 9-11. The 68-year-old was the chaplain for New York's Fire Department and he rushed to the

2:08World Trade Center after it was attacked by two planes. He died after being hit by debris from the collapsing South Tower whilst administering the last rites and comforting people at the North Tower. During the 1980s, Father Michael cared for AIDS patients and conducted their funerals. His sexuality wasn't widely known during his life and he maintained a vow of celibacy. Pride Daily And Jessica DeLong was part of the effort to get much needed water to ground zero. Back then, the bisexual writer was a volunteer assistant engineer on one of the Fire Department's retired boats, the John Jay Harvey. The vessel was brought back into service, pumping seawater to fire trucks for 80 continuous hours until water mains had been repaired. It was used through evacuations as well, saving maybe as many as 200 lives. When Jessica wasn't working in the engine room, she also helped sort through tons of donations, says there never seemed to be enough respirators,

3:11gloves or hard hats that they had more nappies and hand puppets than they knew what to do with. No time to tell you that, it's Northern Ireland's Trans Pride Nye tomorrow in Belfast, and you've got Ukraine's Harkiv Pride on Sunday. There's more on our socials at Pride Daily Pod, including any breaking news. That's your lot. I'll see you next week.