On the closing day of Gay Games, Illinois Family Institute scheduled a press conference in front of Steamworks, an ALLSTAR sponsor of the Gay Games. Speakers included Greg Quinlan, James Hartline, and Dr John Diggs - all prepared to question why the gay community tolerates an establishment where homosexual men can and do contract diseases like syphilis, hepatitis, and AIDS.
Unfortunately, most were unable to hear that message because a group from the Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches were not so welcoming, but were there to protest IFI - with banners and bullhorns, shouting angrily, chanting "Born Again Bigots."
Why would any "church" support the existence of a bath house, a place where men go for anonymous and often unprotected sex?
