FLAG Flag Football, one of Boston’s largt gay sports leagu, prents an annual scholarship to stunt-athlet who are workg to make sports more clive for LGBTQ youth.
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ROBERT KRAFT SHOWED UP TO BOSTON’S GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S OPENG DAY
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But FLAG Flag Football, one of the largt recreatnal gay sports leagu Boston, is tryg to change that — one scholarship at a time. Found 1998, FLAG (Friends, Lbians, and Gays) Flag Football boasts more than 300 members. After g out at the begng of his junr year, Batler joed his suburban high school’s Gay Straight Alliance — which he renamed the “Genr, Sexualy and Awarens Club” — and ma sure to wear Pri sweatbands and other regalia whenever he raced.
Growg up, Batler says he lacked openly gay role mols his hometown, and he wanted to fill that void for the next generatn. An openly gay high school swimmer, he worked wh his school’s guidance team to n a support group for kids who were still g to terms wh their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
At Brown, Batler ntu to lead on and off the track, startg the Stunt-Athlete Gay Alliance, which is a safe space for closeted and out athlet to e together. One of the most succsful and powerful owners pro sports was takg time out of his Saturday morng to vis a nonscript park ep Dorchter and schmooze wh gaggl of football-lovg gays. The Patrts are a longtime sponsor of FLAG Flag Football Boston, Boston’s premier gay flag football league.