Pride Month: Some of the Welsh LGBT+ organisations you can help
There are plenty of organisations in Wales doing amazing work to help LGBT+ people, and help is always welcome
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Catching Up With Martin Stark and the World Gay Boxing Championships
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him)
Our sports editor, Dirk Smith caught up with Martin Stark who is busy organizing and promoting the first ever World Gay Boxing Championships set to take place in 2023. We wanted to learn more about the event and how Martin is working to make boxing into a global LGBTQ+ sports event.
Dirk Smith: Tell us more about the World Gay Boxing Championships; when/where they will be held, who’s invited, etc. Give us the rundown!
Martin Stark: The championships will be held in Sydney from 20-24 February 2023 coinciding with the city hosting Mardi Gras and World Pride. We are excited to welcome the LGBTQ+ community and our allies to our beautify city and country experiencing the warm Australian hospitality. Everyone is invited!
Alice Hoagland fought to keep the legacy of her son, Mark Bingham, alive. (Jemal Countess/Getty)
Alice Hoagland, the mother of gay 9/11 hero Mark Bingham and inclusive rugby champion, has died aged 71 after a long battle with Addison’s disease.
Hoagland died on 22 December at her home in Los Gatos, California,
AP News reported. She was remembered by International Gay Rugby as “its biggest supporter and the surrogate mother for many rugby players who found a way forward through their involvement with rugby through their involvement with rugby and the Bingham Cup.”
She became involved with rugby after the death of her son, Mark Bingham.
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Alice Hoagland, the mother of 9/11 victim Mark Bingham and beloved mother figure in the global gay rugby movement had died.
Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement that her own son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight 93, has died. She was 71. Hoagland, a former flight attendant who became a safety activist while carrying on her son’s athletic legacy, died Dec. 22 in her sleep at her home in Los Gallos, California, after battling Addison s disease, according to longtime family friend Amanda Mark.