Here I Come by Andrei Fenochka is a web television series. Produced in Moscow, it is the first Russian LGBTQ+ series featuring an Armenian protagonist.
Fenochka directs and Liza Simbirskaya serves as both writer and producer.
Eastsiders by Kit Williamson
Eastsiders by Kit Williamson is a television series that first aired on YouTube and is now available on Netflix. The series features a gay Armenian character (4 episodes) played by Aram Kirakosian, who also goes by the stage name Adam Ramzi.
Anamot Press
Anamot Press was set up in March 2020. Through the Poetry Streaming project, over 40 invited poets, publishers and writers shared queer experiences across borders and other stories on migration, ancestral grief, displacement, love and loss.
Equality Armenia
Equality Armenia was a vital resource in creating this library. Please read the excellent articles they publish regularly. From Equality Armenia’s website: Equality Armenia is dedicated to achieving marriage equality in Armenia.
Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin
Published in 1992, Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin features a gay Armenian-American character, Jeff Kassabian. Maupin’s inspiration for the character was George Stambolian. Stambolian was an American educator, writer, and editor of Armenian descent.
Queering Armenian Studies edited by Tamar Shirinian and Carina Karapetian Giorgi
Published in 2018 by the Armenian Review (Volume 56. No. 1-2 Spring-Summer 2018), Queering Armenian Studies may be the first [*] collection of articles, book reviews, essays/conversations, and stories about Queer Armenians published by an academic press.
Queer Motherhood is Speculative Fiction by Kamee Abrahamian
Published in 2020, Queer Motherhood is Speculative Fiction by Kamee Abrahamian is featured in Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices. Kamee Abrahamian was born in Scarborough, Canada to an Armenian family by way of Beirut; arrives in the world today as a queer woman and a multidisciplinary producer / artist / facilitator / storyteller.
The Anglo-American Alliance by Gregory Casparian
Published in 1906, The Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future by Gregory Casparian is considered to be the first [*] science fiction novel featuring two heroines who are Lesbian. The novel features the relationship in a positive light and also features a case of gender reassignment.
Parev Mama by Natalie Shirinian
Scheduled to be released in 2021, Parev Mama (Hello Mother) is a short film written and directed by Natalie Shirinian. Shirinian has been featured in Vogue, InStyle’s February 2020 Badass Women Issue, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times. Her debut film was Interior Motives
Frayed by Sevan Mujukian
Frayed by Sevan Mujukian is a series of interactive audiovisual landscapes about diaspora, longing, memory, and carpets.
Mujukian identifies as non-binary and is a new media designer & artist, educator, and beat-maker.