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Reconciling Development Work and the Closet in Paraguay
–Fiona Martin, now an RPCV I looked at my Facebook page recently, and I realized just how… well, gay it had become in the last year and a half. Well over half the links I post are about equal rights,...
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Machismo and Gay Slurs in the Dominican Republic
- A Peace Corps Volunteer Recently, Blue Jays’ shortstop Yunel Escobar painted the words “Tú ere maricón” into his eyeblack for a game against the Boston Red Sox. Once the North American audience...
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Follow My Dream: Letters from a Peace Corps Volunteer in Albania
- William M. Trunk, RPCV Imagine having a well-paid career as a Finance Manager at a large multinational industrial company for 17 years. And then you leave the company to join the Peace Corps to...
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Peace Corps Service and Finding a Partner in Honduras
- Erica Brien and Camila Fiero, RPCVs Erica’s Story: Being openly gay as a Peace Corps Volunteer was, for me, impossible. I lived in a community of 300-people in the mountains of Comayagua, Honduras....
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Guarding My Sexuality in Botswana
- A Peace Corps Volunteer The other day a fellow PCV invited me to an LGBT pool party coming up in Gaborone, the capital. This was strange to me to begin with because I don’t know any locals who are...
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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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Lesbians Non-Existent in Tonga?
- Peace Corps Volunteer To start, I want to comment on how much I appreciated LGBT RPCVs and Brian Favorite’s three articles on Fakaletis (men who live and dress as women) in Tonga. The fact that the...
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In the Closet in Morocco and Some Poor Decisions
– A Volunteer To be absolutely honest, upon receiving my assignment to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, I was so super excited to a point that words can’t explain it all. It was especially...
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Open Secrets – Serving Queer in Paraguay
- Compiled and Edited by Manuel Colón and Fiona Martin, RPCVs Have you ever heard the Hans Christian Anderson tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”? It’s a story about a vain Emperor who cares for nothing....
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My Experience in Morocco as a Lesbian PCV
- A Peace Corps Volunteer For me, being gay in Morocco is difficult but not unmanageable. Though many people in my small town in the Little Sahara consider themselves more laid-back and open-minded...
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Nine Years Later: A Love Letter to Ghana, Continued
- Joel Parthemore, RPVC Author’s Note: All names have been changed: both those who would not wish to be named and those who wouldn’t care. The last time I came to Ghana, I was still employed with Peace...
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Serving in Moldova, a Mixed Blessing
- A Current PCV Sunday, May 19th, Moldova had a gay pride parade. While it only lasted half a block it was still deemed a success and many international organizations helped support the local LGBT...
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Weather … or Not
By – Wayne Hill, RPCV, Micronesia I’ve been following the weather reports on the Boston Globe web site recently to see how things are going in my home town. Not well, unless you think that two feet of...
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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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Love Is Love: Azerbaijan RPCVs Confront Stigma Towards LGBTQ Community
Reprinted from National Peace Corps Association with Permission Release Date Thursday, April 17th, 2014 By Jake Winn From Prague to London, LA to NYC and across Azerbaijan itself, photos are pouring in...
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What Kyrgyzstan Gave Me Travels Far
– Bryce Wolfe, RPCV In pre-service training, we received a handout welcoming us to our “two-year crisis” in the Kyrgyz Republic. It charted the roller coaster of emotions, thoughts and physical...
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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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PINK Embassy / LGBT Pro Albania on LGBT Issues in Albania
Last month, Peace Corps held a week-long training on the Same-Sex Couples Initiative with the support of representatives of PINK Embassy / LGBT Pro Albania and training staff from Peace Corps...
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Return to Paraguay
- Manuel Colón, RPCV 2010-2012 2014 has been a big year for me in terms of reflection and introspection, largely because of a few life “shifts” that I’m currently in. Specifically, as of May, I have...
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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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