It's a beautiful, beautiful location that we can show off. Our international advisers evaluated every venue possible and determined that it was by far the best within 100 miles of the city.

Yeah, we felt the pressure.

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

Not only does the wavier send an additional welcome to people with HIV and their partners, it increases the number of registrants, so there are practical as well as moral benefits.

We've been working on going from inside-out. It's always easier to get things going when you throw it inside.

I think a lot of new people who will come and watch will be straight. We really believe the increase will come locally.

If you spent four hours listening to some of the most hateful things you can imagine... It is very difficult to disregard what these people said and just deal with how boats are unloaded and loaded. You are going to say this is not right and this is why the Gay Games are needed.

There will be about 12,000 participants from 70 separate countries. With tourists, partners of the competitors and volunteers, there should be 100,000 people in the city associated with the Games.

They have told us that (the suspension of new programming) is a normal, planned production hiatus to plan for the Gay Games.