A Decade of FLAG Football Celebrated in Boston

From a post in Bay Windows;

Ten years ago, Robert Saurer was fresh out of college and tossing a football around at home, wishing that he had a safe, comfortable environment where he could play football as an out gay man. On a whim, he placed an ad in Bay Windows looking to start a league for gay and gay-friendly football fans. Now, Greater Boston’s Friends, Lesbians and Gays (FLAG) Flag Football League consists of 180 players who make up fourteen teams and is one of the most active gay sports leagues in the state.

“I wanted to get back into some kind of organized sport, but I wanted to do it in an environment that wasn’t so, I don’t want to say threatening, but uncomfortable at times if you’re a gay athlete. … I wanted to specifically play with other gay athletes,” said Saurer of his idea to start the league.