Category: Rainbow Alumni

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Spring 2025 Grinnell Rainbow Connections

Spring 2025 Veritas et Arcus Iris A Note from Rainbow Alumni Leadership: Spring and Coming Out As the Spring blossoms all around us in its colorful glory, our thoughts turn to new life and personal renewal. The process of Coming Out is one thing that unites us as a community,

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Winter 2024 Grinnell Rainbow Connections

Winter 2024 Veritas et Arcus Iris A Note from GRA Leadership: How Can We Respond? As this newsletter goes out, many of us reside somewhere between shock at the recent presidential election results, and trepidation for what comes after Inauguration Day. The dark storm cloud of a rising right-wing populism

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Fall 2024 Grinnell Rainbow Connections

Fall 2024 Veritas et Arcus Iris A Note from Rainbow Alumni Leadership: Why Volunteering Matters This past year the volunteers of the Grinnell Rainbow Alumni accomplished a lot. In June and July, our devoted alumni set up five new Ren-Gay-Vous Pride events around the country; two new funds for a

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Summer 2024 Grinnell Rainbow Connections

Summer 2024 Veritas et Arcus Iris A Note from Rainbow Alumni Leadership  With Pride Month upon us, our thoughts turn not just to the events Grinnell Rainbow Alumni has planned for the coming days and months, but to the meaning of Pride to us as a group. We take pride

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Spring 2024 Grinnell Rainbow Connections

Spring 2024 Veritas et Arcus Iris A Note from Rainbow Alumni Leadership As Iowa emerges into spring, we reach out to welcome you to the Grinnell Rainbow Alumni (GRA), the college’s first alumni affinity group. As members and allies of various LGBTQIA+ communities, we’ve prepared a slate of engaging rainbow

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