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.
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 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.
Published in 2007, Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian American Writers, edited by David Kherdian, is a notable anthology in that it includes a selection from Arlene Voski Avakian’s memoir Lion Woman’s Legacy. Avakian is a Lesbian Armenian-American writer.
Hyperallergic is an online publication that describes itself as, “a leading voice in contemporary perspectives on art, culture.” It was founded in 2009 by the husband-and-husband team, Veken Gueyikian and Hrag Vartanian. Gueyikian serves as publisher and Vartanian as Editor-in-Chief.
Published on April 24, 2015, I Didn’t Have to Procreate to Carry on my Armenian-American Family Legacy is a op-ed published in The Washington Post by Haig Chahinian.
Chahinian is a writer and guidance counselor, which he describes as helping
Released in 2010, Delicious Fruit by Melissa Boyajian is a short experimental film utilizing recontextualized footage of Sergei Parajanov’s archetypal film The Color of Pomegranates.
Melissa Boyajian is an actor and director, known for Sooner, Oklahoma (2009)
Since 2001, Eve Beglarian has been creating Book of Days, which features a recording, accompanied by images or video, for each day of the year. The on-going project is at 130 days. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Book of Days is, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.
Beginning in 2013, Bavakan has been publishing their poetry through their eponymous blog Bavakan. Bavakan is a queer feminist activist living in Armenia.
You can read Bavakan’s poetry collection here.
Released in 2017, Adamantine is a short film by Art Arutyunyan, a gay Armenian writer, director, animator and producer.
Arutyunyan was born and raised in Uzbekistan, and is now based in Los Angeles. He trained as a fashion designer, before transitioning to film production.
