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gerald fariñas y cacáy 0 skip to content home about rotary club rotary 101 rotary in evanston linktree register to join a virtual meeting find gerry ilocano the ilocano people history of the ilocanos ilocano language ilocano clothing indigenous faith traditions ilocano presbyterians espiritista ilocano tobacco ilocano garlic ilocano lgbtq history from the clerk s desk home open menu close menu home about rotary club rotary 101 rotary in evanston linktree register to join a virtual meeting find gerry ilocano the ilocano people history of the ilocanos ilocano language ilocano clothing indigenous faith traditions ilocano presbyterians espiritista ilocano tobacco ilocano garlic ilocano lgbtq history from the clerk s desk home open menu close menu home about folder rotary club back rotary 101 rotary in evanston linktree register to join a virtual meeting find gerry folder ilocano back the ilocano people history of the ilocanos ilocano language ilocano clothing indigenous faith traditions ilocano presbyterians espiritista ilocano tobacco ilocano garlic ilocano lgbtq history from the clerk s desk home welcome naragsak a panag abot yo 欢迎 e komo mai ようこそ chào mừng bienvenido maligayang pagdating 환영 go to gerry s substack newsletter go to gerry s podcast on apple podcasts go to gerry s podcast on spotify calendar march 3 6 presbyterian church usa campus louisville ky june 22 july 2 227th general assembly of the presbyterian church usa milwaukee wis august 30 speaker fourth presbyterian church chicago ill announcements for business related to the former publications gay chicago magazine chicago phoenix and opus media please refer to legal counsel gerry is a proud member of the society of professional journalists and the chicago headline club gerry is a proud monthly financial contributor to wbez please support local independent journalism recent reading did you know gerry reads every single day for at least one hour like gerry you can borrow ebooks from your local public library and support independent booksellers by going to bookshop org the starving saints by caitlin starling learn more on bookshop org sea people by christina thompson learn more on bookshop org demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver learn more on bookshop org the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver learn more on bookshop org death in the haymarket by james green learn more on bookshop org above the salt by katherine vaz learn more on bookshop org the life of herod the great by zora neale hurston learn more on bookshop org president of evanston nouveau rotary club 2025 26 learn more about rotary international go to evanston nouveau linktree recent writing gerry writes on substack com gerry blogs at edgewaterpcusa org gerry writes news on gopride com gerald farinas 7 23 26 gerald farinas 7 23 26 book review demon copperhead taught me about addiction division grace one of the most important books i ve ever read was by barbara kingsolver in her appalachian adaptation of david copperfield read more gerald farinas 5 1 26 gerald farinas 5 1 26 why may day is lei day in hawaii the tradition of lei day started back in the late 1920s because of a guy named don blanding he was a poet who wrote for the honolulu star bulletin daily newspaper and realized that while everyone else in the world was doing may day with maypoles and ribbons hawaii had something much better to celebrate read more gerald farinas 4 30 26 gerald farinas 4 30 26 the gospel according to star trek as i grew older and my roots in the christian faith deepened into church leadership i realized that the fleet and the gospel have been in a long conversation all along read more gerald farinas 4 20 26 gerald farinas 4 20 26 sample anti racism lgbtq inclusion and equity policy for churches these forms of bias go against the gospel of jesus christ for a long time the church has been part of systems that hurt people based on their race gender gender identity who they love or how their brains work we want to change that we believe the holy spirit calls us to fix these wrongs and work for the safety and dignity of everyone read more gerald farinas 2 16 26 gerald farinas 2 16 26 prairie train dream i had a dream last night i couldn t help but digest it all as i walked through the art institute of chicago today read more poetry and prose politics gerald farinas 2 7 26 poetry and prose politics gerald farinas 2 7 26 hymn of the american worker against the mogul titans arise you prisoners of the screen the digital serfs of a hollow age read more gerald farinas 2 6 26 gerald farinas 2 6 26 a friday night in february at dengeo s the room is a cross section of the neighborhood a mix of blue collar young adults and middle aged men ready to unwind for super bowl weekend and retired folks just enjoying a night out read more gerald farinas 1 30 26 gerald farinas 1 30 26 complaining about illinois it s one of the most powerful u s states in world while we re busy rolling our eyes at a city sticker or a 9 5 corporate income tax rate the global economy is looking at illinois as one of the most formidable powers on the planet read more gerald farinas 1 20 26 gerald farinas 1 20 26 hopeless about my sermon on sunday for a long time my instinct has been to push hope as a shield against the world but there comes a point where the gap between a hopeful sermon and a painful reality is just too wide read more gerald farinas 1 20 26 gerald farinas 1 20 26 buddha and jesus would ve gotten along one of my favorite professors gave me a piece of advice that stayed with me he told me never to raise a word against buddhism until i had actually read and understood its scripture i took that challenge to heart after reading those texts i never found a reason to speak against them read more gerald farinas 1 5 26 gerald farinas 1 5 26 today the corporation for public broadcasting died with the official dissolution of the corporation for public broadcasting a vital piece of the american story is being tucked away into the archives read more gerald farinas 12 17 25 gerald farinas 12 17 25 it s a season of change it s scary but also beautiful when i look around at the people in my life and the stories filling my community i see a pattern of upheaval that feels almost magnetic it is as if a collective timer went off signaling that the lives we were living are no longer large enough to hold us read more gerald farinas 12 16 25 gerald farinas 12 16 25 margaret mead the anthropologist who inspired my moral compass that simple phrase they noticed i use a lot it s cultural is the cornerstone of my work guiding my advocacy for immigrants or writing about the lgbtq community or leading people in the presbyterian church usa read more gerald farinas 12 10 25 gerald farinas 12 10 25 where do we go from here 2026 is more of a mystery to me than previous years i m looking at the blank pages of a 2026 planner i m planning to buy and realizing something profound i have less idea of what the next year holds for me than ever before read more gerald farinas 12 5 25 gerald farinas 12 5 25 save your kisses for me the soundtrack of my ilocano childhood in hawaii people have been asking me about an obscure song i often use to back my video posts there s a long story behind it read more gerald farinas 12 1 25 gerald farinas 12 1 25 hot oil cold chicken kalihi memories hawaii style cold ginger chicken growing up our dinner table was a rotation of local staples but few things elicit the specific nostalgia that cold ginger chicken does read more gerald farinas 11 25 25 gerald farinas 11 25 25 mayor harold washington flung the doors open for chicago s lgbtq community while his impact on the black and latino communities is well documented we often overlook how fundamentally he altered life for chicago s lgbtq community read more gerald farinas 11 25 25 gerald farinas 11 25 25 what harold washington meant to us asian americans and the rest of chicago when i see ald leni manaa hoppenworth 48th do her job a fellow filipino american i think he helped pave the way for her for us read more gerald farinas 11 13 25 gerald farinas 11 13 25 i don t often tell people why i really return to hawaii once or twice a year the weather itself has been a poetic illustration of this internal state an alternating mix of sunshine and rain both falling simultaneously from a half blue sky read more gerald farinas 11 12 25 gerald farinas 11 12 25 three people lectured me on microaggression as woke judging mild comments as racist the pushback i received from white voices on the mainland to my reporting racism and causing a company into action and accountability added a chilling layer of secondary harm read more older posts 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 crain s chicago business magazine gerry is chicago health care hero 2020 quick bio gerald farinas is a published writer and editor public historian and theologian ordained church elder and former social services director of 20 years he lives in chicago ill copyright 2026 chicago illinois all rights reserved