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Calendar.
August 30. 11:30 a.m. Edgewater Mutual Aid
August 31. 11:00 a.m. Edgewater Presbyterian Church
August 31. 3:00 p.m. Viet Vo
September 1-3. Elmwood Park
September 7. 11:00 a.m. Edgewater Presbyterian Church
September 7. TBA. Mary Beth
September 9. 1:00 p.m. Homeland Security Fall Religious Observance Safety and Security Briefing
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.
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Jezebel by Megan Barnard
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Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz
Recent writing.
My political hero? Mayor Fasi gets it done
The longtime firebrand Honolulu mayor can best Chicago’s Richard J. Daley.
No one deserves suffering; Texans deserve mercy
People, even those who claim to follow Jesus, say that victims of floods and other disasters somehow deserved what happened to them because of how they vote or where they live.
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.
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.
Cynics, the lot of you! And it ain’t right
We cannot afford to stay this cynical. Not if we want anything worth passing on.
this is an lgbt safe space
Please support: Lambda Legal GLAAD It Gets Better The Trevor Project
black lives matter
Please support: Black Lives Matter NAACP Color of Change
Gerry is Chicago Health Care Hero 2020
Other books Gerry has read.
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Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
