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Calendar.
August 22. 10:00 a.m. Meeting with Pastor Kristin.
August 22. 5:00 p.m. Elmwood Park.
August 23. 10:00 a.m. Edgewater Mutual Aid Network.
August 24. 12:30 p.m. Session meeting.
September 13. 8:30 a.m. Chicago Presbytery Assembly at Garrett Theological Seminary
September 27. 10:00 a.m. Session Records Review Meeting at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Announcements.
Gerry became President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club on July 1, 2025.
Gerry became a Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellow and sustaining member.
Gerry was appointed Clerk of Session on February 13, 2022 and re-appointed each year since.
For business related to the former publications Gay Chicago Magazine, Chicago Phoenix, and Opus Media, please refer to legal counsel.
Gerry is currently on leave as editor of GoPride.com—Chicago’s LGBT news site.

President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club 2025-26
Recent reading.
Did you know? Gerry reads every single day for at least one hour. He’s even successfully done this through two stays in the ICU at the hospital.
As of August 8, 2025, Gerry has read 1,578 days in a row or 227 weeks in a row, non-stop.
Recent writing.
Bishop Rojas shepherds flock away from ICE; releases obligation to attend Mass
Protestant leaders should follow his example to do whatever is in their power to provide Sanctuary—in all its meanings.
Superman vs. ICE agent. In Pilsen incident, ICE agent is hero
A mural showing Superman punching an ICE agent was vandalized—but only Superman got hit. The ICE agent in the painting was left untouched.
Why Trump’s show of force in L.A. isn’t happening in Chicago (yet)
We haven’t seen the same unfold in Chicago because of the power of already deep-rooted grassroots networks that mobilized.
L.A. is the response to dictatorship, not President responding to crisis
When the people rise up, when they “Storm the Bastille,” it’s because they’ve been pushed to the wall with no more choices left.
Responding to my critics, ‘Why I can’t go to Rotary International convention in Canada’
It was a deeply personal—and deeply political—decision rooted in the lived reality that people like me are facing in this moment in America.
I’m not going to Rotary convention; without due process, I’ll be at risk crossing Canada border
We’ve entered a nightmare realm—one where U.S. citizens of color have already been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of their rights, denied due process, and held without cause.

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