pride flag in his yard. He didn’t expect that displaying the flag would lead to a violent assault by a stranger.Boston 25 News reports the attack happened in the closing days of June. “We had put the flag up maybe an hour beforehand, it was Pride month,” Anderson recalls.As he continued to work around his yard, Anderson says an unidentified man stopped and got out of his car, walked over, and began beating him on the spot.
The attacker swore at him, called him names and began punching him in the face. The blows to the face knocked out Anderson’s two front teeth, and left him with gashes that required stitches.Related: A gay man was stabbed and beaten by a Jeffrey Dahmer fan.