Creating Toronto’s first gay football team sounded like a kind of mission impossible to Ken Scott. He’d played other organized, more gay-friendly sports like softball, volleyball and bowling — but football had always been his true sporting love.
So two years ago he put the word out as best he could and started to show up every Saturday afternoon at a small patch of grass just east of the Village with cones to mark the field, a couple of footballs to toss around and flags for everybody who wanted to play. Most days, he was lucky to have enough players for four or five a side.
“There was every other gay sport in the city, but I wanted to play football,” said Scott over a beer and nachos at a local pub. “A lot of gay men are discouraged from playing football at a young age, so I thought having a gay-positive league would provide a more nurturing environment for guys to learn the game and try something new.”
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