COOK COUNTY REPUBLICANS: GAY GAMES JUST TOO GAY

The Illinois Family Institute, an anti-gay group, announced that Cook County Commissioners Elizabeth Ann Doody Gorman (17th), Gregg Goslin (14th), Carl Hansen (15th), Anthony Peraica (16th) and Peter Silvestri (9th) have asked that their names be removed from the resolution in support of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago, which passed unanimously on June 21.

The Free Press quotes Peraica as saying, "I never really supported the resolution to begin with. *** I have always been supportive of family values, which does not include the gay and lesbian agenda."

But the Gay Games didn't get any queerer since the board's unanimous vote. So just what exactly has changed since June 21?

Well for one thing, Jack Roeser, Illinois Family Institute board member, stopped payment on a $5000 check to Peraica.

Jonathan Kelley of Selfish Hedonist concludes, "It seems pretty clear that Tony Peraica can be bought... and not for much."