How gay hero Mark Bingham saved hundreds of lives on 9/11

It has been 24 years since three planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during the horrifying 9/11 attacks in 2001.

But gay athlete Mark Bingham and three of his fellow passengers onboard United Airlines Flight 93 helped to save hundreds of lives by ensuring that a fourth plane did not hit its intended target.

Bingham was a 6’4″ well-built rugby player, who once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner of six years, Paul Holm. “He hated to lose at anything,” Holm once recounted .

When television screens flashed with the news that passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 battled their hijackers on 9/11, nobody who knew Bingham was surprised to learn he was involved.

Bingham, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, hatched the plan to retake the