On what has become a day of solemn remembrance annually, Americans pause to reflect on the lives lost during the worst terror attack on United States soil. A state senator from New York honored a gay couple and their son on X, formerly Twitter, Monday. All three died 22 years ago on September 11, 2001.
“Remembering two pioneering gay dads, Daniel Brandhorst and Ronald Gamboa, and their 3-year-old son, David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, who died on Flight 175,” wrote Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, above a photo of the couple and their child.
Gamboa, 33, who managed three Gap stores in Santa Monica, Calif., and Brandhorst, 42, a lawyer and PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, had been together for 14 years.
The couple was aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, killing them along with their 3-year-old son, David. They were trying to return to their Hollywood Hills home after their annual trip to Provincetown, Mass.
At least two dozen of the people who died in the terror attacks that day were members of the LGBTQ+ community. The queer people lost in the attack are remembered at the museum at the Ground Zero site, which sits where the towers once stood.
On what has become a day of solemn remembrance annually, Americans pause to reflect on the lives lost during the worst terror attack on United States soil. A state senator from New York honored a gay couple and their son on X, formerly Twitter, Monday. All three died 22 years ago on September 11, 2001.
“Remembering two pioneering gay dads, Daniel Brandhorst and Ronald Gamboa, and their 3-year-old son, David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, who died on Flight 175,” wrote Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, above a photo of the couple and their child.
Gamboa, 33, who managed three Gap stores in Santa Monica, Calif., and Brandhorst, 42, a lawyer and PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, had been together for 14 years.
The couple was aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, killing them along with their 3-year-old son, David. They were trying to return to their Hollywood Hills home after their annual trip to Provincetown, Mass.
At least two dozen of the people who died in the terror attacks that day were members of the LGBTQ+ community. The queer people lost in the attack are remembered at the museum at the Ground Zero site, which sits where the towers once stood.
