Potomac Falls High grad wins $40K advocacy scholarship

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Potomac Falls High grad wins $40K advocacy scholarship

By Veronike Collazo, [e-mail] Jun 29, 2018 Updated Jun 29, 2018

Potomac Falls High School graduate Luc Teyssier is one of two winners for the Peter L. Page Scholarship through the University of Virginia.

Now in its third year, the Peter L. Page Scholarship is offered through UVA’s network of LGBTQ alumni. It's awarded to two gay men* a year who demonstrate a commitment to bettering the LGBTQ community. ... Teyssier, who will start UVA in the fall, will receive $40,000 throughout his four years of college and was selected for his inter-sectional activism.

The Sterling teen may be most known to some Loudouners for his appearances before the Loudoun County School Board, petitioning the board to adopt employment discrimination protections for gay and transgender employees.

Though Loudoun County government includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes from employment discrimination, Loudoun County Public Schools does not, and last year the board voted 4-5 against adding the protections.

* That's what it says. I think they mean "individuals." A sex-based scholarship wouldn't pass muster anywhere these days.

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1. Hey he's in my neighborhood! Congrats!

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2. The Peter L. Page Scholarship

I'm always the last to know. Here's a bunch about the scholarship:

The Peter L. Page Scholarship

In 2014, the Serpentine Society received a bequest to endow a scholarship fund from the late Dr. Peter L. Page, a 1967 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences and a graduate of the School of Medicine who went on to have a long and distinguished career in transfusion medicine. As per the stipulations of Dr. Page’s bequest, there are 2 scholarships available for highly motivated gay, male students: The Peter Page Merit Scholarship for incoming First Year students, and the Peter Page Grant for current undergraduates and graduate students at UVa.

Yeah, male-only.

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3. Excellent, progressive news, thanks.