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Calendar.
Announcements.
Gerry ended 20 years of service at Three Crowns Park on July 22, 2025.
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.
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.
Forcing Ten Commandments in schools is tool of Christian nationalism, white supremacy
That is not Christianity. That is oppression dressed up in religious language.
VA doctors allowed to deny service to Democrats, LGBTQ, unmarried veterans
What the hell kind of country does that?
Aren’t you tired? A letter to his diehard supporters
Isn’t it heavy? Carrying that much rage around all day?
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.
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.
Left-wing political violence is rare; right-wing more prevalent
I unequivocally condemn all political violence, including the recent tragedy in Washington, D.C.
Familiar Playbook: MAGA, nativism, and the disposable Catholic
MAGA’s ultimate religious identity is not Catholic—it is White Evangelical Protestantism cloaked in American exceptionalism.

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