Published in 2003, Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution edited by Marc Nichanian is a collection of essays from the first international conference about a modern Armenian poet, Charents, held at a Western university.
Of note to this library are the essays The Armenian Counterculture That Never Was and Charents the Prophet by James R. Russell.
Published in 2007 and continuing through 2020, Unzipped: Gay Armenia by Mika Artyan is the most prolific and phenomenal blog about the lives, literature, arts, news, and public policies of Queer Armenians.
This library would not exist if it weren’t for Unzipped, which has reviewed books and films for the past thirteen years.
Published in 2011, Queered: What’s To Be Done With Xcentric Art by the Queering Yerevan (QY) collective is their first publication and one of the first [*] collections of queer art, photography, experimental writing, critical texts, and email correspondences.
Published in 2017, Pride & Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons, and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau is a celebration of queer lives as she writes biographies, profiles, and stories of queer folx.
One of the artists she writes about is Thea Farhadian
Published in 2000, Princess Freak by Nancy Agabian is the first [*] collection of poems and performance texts by a bisexual Armenian-American.
Agabian is the author of the memoir Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, which was a finalist
Published in 2011, My Gay Dream by Alex Ikke-Tuppel is one of the first [*] novels featuring a gay main character by an author who is a native of Yerevan, Armenia.
Ikke-Tuppel is in sales for a manufacturer of semiconductors.
ublished in 2020, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey by Bob Avian, with Tom Santopietro, is the first [*] memoir by a Gay Armenian-American. Avian is an American choreographer, theatrical producer, and stage director. Early in his career
Published in 2017, A Poet in Washington Heights by Christopher Atamian is one of the first [*] poetry collections by a gay Italian-Armenian.
Atamian is a translator, writer, and director.
Published in 2012, Transition: Becoming Who I was Always Meant to Be by Chaz Bono is the first [*] memoir by a transgender man of Armenian-American descent.
Bono is an American character actor and activist.
Published in 2016, Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edward is the second [*] memoir published by a transgender man of Armenian-American descent.
Chris made his advertising debut in 1993 as a copywriter at Arnold Worldwide,
