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After 20 years in service, Three Crowns Park—A Covenant Living Community no longer employs Gerry, as of July 22, 2025.
Gerry became President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club on July 1, 2025.
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

Gerry is Chicago Health Care Hero 2020

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Gerry’s Blog.
CBS cancels Stephen Colbert; definitely Trump bribe for media merger
It’s the highest-rated show on late-night television. Colbert has been voice for anti-Trumpism.
Rescissions vote aims to finalize cuts to NPR, PBS; endanger public journalism
Public media is necessary in a democracy, especially in a capitalist society that values commercially-driven messaging.
Medicaid recipients can replace lost migrant labor, says USDA chief
Able-bodied vets with PTSD, persons with non-visible disabilities, can work in the fields, according to the Secretary of Agriculture.
Where are the Roosevelts of today in our new Gilded Age?
We had giants who fought the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans. Now look at us. Look at what we have.
I am endorsing Hoan Huynh for Congress in the Illinois ninth district
This endorsement is personal and not in my capacity as an officer of any civic organizations, publisher and writer of any publications, director of a social service provider, elder of a Church.
Deporting longtime residents to ‘origin’ countries where they have few ties
It has no inherent benefit to society.
Zohran shows us Democrats who fight vs. polite opposition
The Democratic Party’s internal struggle isn’t about socialism versus capitalism anymore. It’s about courage versus cowardice.
He thanked God for the Iran bombings; fanatic advisors believe Jesus is coming
Standing behind him, in spirit if not on stage, were his warped “faith advisers”—Evangelical extremists who treat the Book of Revelation like a war manual.
Evangelicals want Trump to attack Iran to bring Jesus back; Presbyterians disagree
As the Declaration of Faith reminds us, “We do not know when or how the final redemption of creation will be achieved. But we know that God will win.”
VA doctors allowed to deny service to Democrats, LGBTQ, unmarried veterans
What the hell kind of country does that?
Yes! There is an official Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem
In 1946, “El Pendón Estrellado” became the official Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem.
Aren’t you tired? A letter to his diehard supporters
Isn’t it heavy? Carrying that much rage around all day?
Wannabe strongman breaks U.S. custom with authoritarian-style military parade
Our founding fathers insisted on displays of civilian rule rather than the pomp of kings and their soldiers.
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.
Trump taps private corporation for database on every American
It means your data, your life, could be filtered through an opaque algorithm, then passed to law enforcement without you ever knowing why.
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.
Look to Hawaii for hard lessons on U.S. oligarchy, apartheid
Being born and raised in Hawaii, I couldn’t escape the fact that I was born in the waning shadows of a very American brand of apartheid.
Pride parades still matter because they want us exterminated
Everything we’ve fought for, marched for, been arrested for, and died for is under siege.
America will never be the same if Trump suspends habeas corpus
Abraham Lincoln couldn’t do it without Congress’ approval.
HIV/AIDS funding cuts will mark people for death
Cook Co. Commissioner Kevin Morrison has led the charge against these cuts by the Trump Administration and Congress.