WESTBORO, KANSAS – The organizers of next year’s GaymerCon have been “RSVP’ed” by a questionable group of attendees, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which announced this week plans to attend the self-described “first gaming and geek lifestyle convention, with a focus on LGBT culture,” which is scheduled to be held next August in San Francisco. In a Twitter post on August 11, Rebekah Phelps-Roper, the granddaughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps, observed, “What we’ve all been longing for: a fag-focused gaming convention!” According to its organizers, GaymerCon is planned to “create a space where all gamers and queer geeks can come together in a welcoming and safe space.” Members of Westboro previously picketed the funerals of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was tortured and murdered in 1998.
