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		<title>LGBT RPCVs’ Annual Report for 2011 – Activities and Achievements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Mike Learned, Group Leader (RPCV, Malawi) This report of our activities and achievements during 2011 has been submitted to the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) as part of our reaffiliation with that organization for 2012. Mentoring Program: Since 1994 LGBT RPCVs has managed an electronically-based Mentor Program. LGBT applicants, nominees, trainees and people curious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=770&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I Want to Live in Buenos Aires, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– A Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay Of the approximately six million Paraguayans in this world, two to three million are in Buenos Aires on any given day and another half a million live in Spain. This opens up a number of important conversations. How can we help people find meaningful work in their country of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=768&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building My Own Closet in Paraguay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- A Current Peace Corps Volunteer I am very lucky. Until now, I have never lived in a community where I have felt uncomfortable being out. Paraguay is different. I have all the support and respect I could ask for in the Peace Corps office, and from fellow volunteers. But, self-imposed closeting in my own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=760&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Years after an HIV Scare in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– Brian Guse, RPCV, and PC Trainer, Mali I was perusing the National Peace Corps Association site on Facebook today and saw a post urging readers to check out an RPCV’s blog titled &#8220;No Going Back &#8211; There Is Only Forward.&#8220; The author is a young woman who was recently med-separated from Peace Corps after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=755&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Without Borders: The Story of a Bi-national Same-sex Couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- 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 are truly endless. While most expect to gain experience in international development work or even learn more about themselves and the world, one thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=744&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jopara  (Paraguay) Mission Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- 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 groups in Paraguay. The USA is a diverse place, and we feel that it is important for this multiplicity to be represented and supported amongst Volunteers. Among our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=740&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serve As a Peace Corps Volunteer Where I’m Illegal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Mike Learned, RPCV, Malawi, Editor A couple of months ago there was a very interesting conversation on our listserv. About ten participants responded to a question/comment from a recent gay applicant. He said that he told his recruiter that he would not serve anywhere where he was illegal. I and the respondents assumed that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=721&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Update – Documentary on the Fakaleitis of Tonga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Brian Favorite, RPCV Editors note: Three years ago Brian Favorite, then a recent RPCV from Tonga, wrote a compelling article for our website about his experience with the transgender Fakaleitis of Tonga, Tongan boys raised as girls, many of whom chose to dress and live as women for the rest of their lives. Other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=726&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African LGBT and Human Rights Advocates Reject Economic Sanctions by Developed Countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– 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 slightly different title. Not in our name: African human rights activists reject UK aid conditionality   An oft-told African proverb (whose precise culture of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=724&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe Zone Training in Jordan</title>
		<link>http://lgbrpcv.org/2011/10/29/safety-zone-training-in-jordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Jordanian context. Like Safe Zone sessions in other Peace Corps countries, this was based on the Safe Zone training developed and taught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&amp;blog=11770649&amp;post=701&amp;subd=lgbrpcv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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