Ex-gay Protest of Gay Games Comes to an End

With the culmination of the Gay Games VII in Chicago, so too ends the protest led by IFI’s LaBarbera and his crew of less-than-reputable ex-gays. Although there was a full schedule of protest planned throughout the Gaymes, very little was reported in the press; even the religious press did not seem to much notice IFI’s efforts.

The Chicago Tribune, in its article about the closing ceremonies, did mention the following:

Some people traveled hundreds of miles to protest the Games, but they seemed to have little impact on participants. The Illinois Family Institute staged a week of lectures in a downtown hotel to state their case that homosexuality is immoral, but few people attended , Executive Director Peter LaBarbera said.

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Elsewhere LaBarbera called the Gaymes a “flop” but this does not seem to be a sentiment shared by many others.

Other than IFI’s press releases, the ex-gays did not seem to get any notice at all.