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		<title>A Friend and Lover in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ – Rob Tocci, RPCV Before Peace Corps’ invitation I lived a quiet life, teaching public school and was out to only a few friends. I figured that expressing my sexual orientation would have to be put on hold as a PC volunteer. I was going to live and work in a foreign culture and language. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=805&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Not That Bad in Paraguay</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[- A Current Peace Corps Volunteer My application and recruitment process for Peace Corps did not prepare me properly for serving as an out Gay man in Paraguay. Prior to my arrival in country, it was very unclear to me whom I could disclose my orientation (or if I should at all). I was really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=801&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe Zone Training in Senegal: The Queer Quiz</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[– a current PCV One of my proudest achievements in service, thus far, did not include attempts to end malaria, to promote nutrition for small children, or even to introduce an alternative fuel source. No, instead, my moment of glory came in the administration of a quiz, a &#8220;queer quiz,&#8221; to be exact. At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=782&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confession of a Peace Corps Spokesperson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Hale Sargent, RPCV, Armenia After five years working at Peace Corps, here&#8217;s my juiciest insight: it&#8217;s full of good people. Sorry, but that&#8217;s all I got. From top, down, inside the agency and out, boosters and even the critics, when your motivation is the Peace Corps mission, you&#8217;re probably a decent sort. For five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lgbrpcv.org&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=775&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=768&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=760&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LGBT RPCVs’ Annual Report for 2011 – Activities and Achievements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=770&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;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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		<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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=755&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=744&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=11770649&#038;post=721&#038;subd=lgbrpcv&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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