'I just think they're ignorant to our situation.
'It is throwing it in our face that they can get married and we can't,' said Dion Contreras, a 29-year-old Chicago litigation manager, while having a drink at Cocktail with friends. His customers say they like knowing they're not going to encounter such displays. Zaharakis, though, instructs his bouncers to turn away groups of women sporting beads, boas, tiaras and phallic plastic necklaces. Some bars welcome the women and their free spending, even advertising weekend shows. Gay bars are popular with bachelorettes, both for the over-the-top drag shows and for the ability to let loose in a place where women are unlikely to be groped or ogled. 'I would rather not have the money than host an event I didn't believe in.' 'I'm totally losing money because of it, but I don't want the money,' Zaharakis said. While most gay bars continue to welcome the raucous brides to be, Zaharakis' bar Cocktail is fighting for what he sees as a fundamental right, and his patrons - along with some peeved bachelorettes - are taking notice. That's when he made a decision now posted for all to see: 'No Bachelorette Parties.' CHICAGO - Bar owner Geno Zaharakis sat one busy evening at the window of his gay nightclub, watching as groups of straight women celebrating bachelorette parties made their way along a strip of bars in Chicago's gay-friendly 'Boystown' neighborhood.
