Catholic priest and the New York Fire Department Catholic chaplain, born in Brooklyn, New York. Judge, 68, perished while administering last rites near the scene of the terrorists attack at the World Trade Center.

In the early 1980s, he was one of the first members of the clergy to minister to AIDS patients, and he opened the doors of St. Francis of Assisi Church when Dignity, a gay Catholic organization, needed a home for its AIDS ministry; he also marched in the first gay-inclusive St. Patrick's Day parade, which his friend Brendan Fay, a gay activist, had organized in Queens.

Mainstream press accounts reported extensively on the life and heroic death of Father Mychal Judge, the beloved chaplain of the Fire Department of New York, but it has been the gay press that has reported that Judge was open to many about being a gay man.