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Call to Action for the LGBT Peace Corps Community
- Charlie Rounds, RPCV, Cameroon 1978 – 1981 It seems kind of crazy that in October I will celebrate 30 years of coming home from the Peace Corps in Cameroon and Coming Out – one followed the other by...
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Safe Zone Training in Jordan
We recently heard from Peace Corps volunteers in Jordan about continuing Safe Zone Training there. This year’s session had some additional changes to the training script so that it fit better within a...
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Jopara (Paraguay) Mission Statement
- PCV Paraguay Jopara is a committee organized by Peace Corps Paraguay Volunteers interested in supporting diversity within the Volunteer community and strengthening contacts with diversity interest...
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African LGBT and Human Rights Advocates Reject Economic Sanctions by...
– Mark Canavera, RPCV, Editor’s Note: Mark Canavera, RPCV Burkina Faso, has been a frequent contributor to our enewsletters and web site. This article recently appeared in the Huffington Post with a...
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Without Borders: The Story of a Bi-national Same-sex Couple
- Brad Mattan, RPCV, Ecuador Introduction As each group of Peace Corps trainees boards the plane after staging, no one trainee truly knows what the next two years will bring. Indeed, the possibilities...
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LGBT Ally Training in Paraguay
- Manuel Colon, former PCV On Friday, November 2, 2012, Peace Corps – Paraguay hosted its first ever LGBT ally training with 16 participants, volunteers and staff, in attendance. The training comes as...
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LGBT RPCVs in Cooperation with ORAM
- Mike Learned, Group Leader and Kevin Lo, ORAM’s Advocacy Director Recently I met with Kevin Lo, Director of Advocacy and Legal Services for ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration....
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LGBT Peace Corps Alumni Applaud Peace Corps on Placement of Same-Sex Couples
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Hale Sargent, of the LGBT RPCV Steering Committee: lgbtrpcv@gmail.com LGBT Peace Corps Alumni Applaud Peace Corps on Placement of Same-Sex Couples SAN FRANCISCO /May 21,...
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Placing Same Sex Couples as PCVs and Other Advocacy Issues
- Mike Learned, Group Leader, RPCV Malawi May 21, 2013, a very important day at Peace Corps and for the LGBT Peace Corps community. It brought the announcement that Peace Corps would begin placing same...
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LGBTQ Panel Discussion Sponsored by Peace Corps’ Spectrum
- Edwin S. Patout, RPCV – Ukraine I attended “The LGBTQ Experience in International Development” panel discussion held at Peace Corps Headquarters’ Shriver Hall on Wednesday May 22, 2013. The event...
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New LGBT Employee Resources Group, SPECTRUM, Launched at Peace Corps
In Peace Corps’ efforts to become a more diverse and inclusive work place, the agency has launched and initiative to form affinity-based employee resource groups. Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are...
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Placing Same Sex Couples (SSxCs) in Peace Corps Ukraine
- A Peace Corps Volunteer Introduction Peace Corps has a long history of embracing diversity and equal opportunity. It is long standing PC policy that, “that no person will be denied equal opportunity...
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United Through the Wire – Our Organization Thrives in a Digital World
- Kevin H. Souza, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Malawi The key to maintaining volunteer organizations is creating self-sustaining practices and this has been the approach of the LGBT Peace Corps...
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Peace Corps Pride from Coast to Coast
- Manuel Colón, RPCV, Paraguay 2014 has been amazing year for the LGBT community here in the United States. From sweeping same-sex marriage bans being struck down (nearly every week) to trans actress...
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LGBT Peace Corps Alum Wins 2014 Franklin H. Williams Award
For Manuel Colón, Peace Corps service was about more than gaining skills and helping others overseas – it was about sharing his experience with people back home and inspiring others to consider making...
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Exploring the Arco Iris: The LGBT Experience in the Americas
WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, September 26th Peace Corps staff, RPCVs, and community members celebrated Hispanic Heritage month with the event “Exploring the Arco Iris: The LGBT Experience in the...
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Atlanta Area RPCVs March at Atlanta Pride
Fifty-five AARPCV members and guests showed their pride by marching with Peace Corps host country flags for the annual Atlanta Pride Parade on October 12, 2014. An estimated 300,000 people lined up on...
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Serving as an LGBT Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia
- Krista M. Mastel, RPCV 2011-14 I thought serving as an LGBT volunteer in Mongolia would be difficult. Sure there were challenges, but it turns out serving in Mongolia was one of the best things that...
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Challenges to Sexual or Gender Minorities Populations
By Suzanne Marks, RPCV Togo, LGBT RCPV Steering Committee According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as of December 2014, homosexuality is known to be criminalized in 76 countries, including...
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The Being LGBT in West Africa Project
By Philip Rodenbough, doctoral candidate in chemistry at Columbia University. Twitter:@prodenbough Note: This article is reproduced with permission from RightsViews. The Virtual Student Foreign...
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