Mark Bingham
Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001 he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham died when the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to foil the hijacking.
As a gay man, Bingham has been widely honored posthumously for having "smashed the gay stereotype mold and really opened the door to many others that came after him."
Read more about Mark Bingham: Early Life, Rugby and Business Career, On September 11, 2001, Memorials, In The Media
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“...and the angels waited on him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:13.
Of Jesus during the temptation.
“An isolated outbreak of virginity ... is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.”
—Charlotte Bingham (b. 1942)