Artush and Zaur by Ali Akbar
Published in 2009, Artush and Zaur by Ali Akbar (alias of Alakbar Aliyev) is a novel about the relationship between Artush Saroyan and Zaur Jalilov, an Armenian and Azeri respectively. Akbar is…
Queer Armenian Literature: A Reading
In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the International Armenian Literary Alliance, with Hye-Phen Magazine and the Queer Armenian Library, hosted the first gloabl reading of Queer Armenian writers. Watch the video below!…
Lousine: Lesbian Matchmaker to the Straights
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.
sex poem by hrayr
hrayr publishes his poetry through Instagram. His poem Venus was recently published by the Hye-Phen Magazine. հրայր hrayr is a մտհայիչ western-armenian’ist տարօրինակված queer faggot empath երջանիկ hairy kinkster wiz ծաղկասէր flower…
Swan Song by Armen Davoudian
Published in 2020, Swan Song by Armen Davoudian won the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, as selected by Patrick Donnelly. Davoudian's poems and translations from Persian appear in AGNI, The Sewanee Review, The…
Journey to Tatev by Lillian Avedian
Published in 2021, Journey to Tatev by Lillian Avedian is the first [*] published collection of poetry by a poet who identifies as a Queer Armenian woman. Lillian Avedian is an Armenian-American…
First Light at Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Published in 2017, First Light at Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian is a short story about a trans woman fighter pilot who is navigating both her transition and PTSD. It is notable…
Fleeting City by Hovhannes Tekgyozyan
Published in 2017, Fleeting City by Hovhannes Tekgyozyan is a novel that is part of a new generation of writers in Armenia writing about queer characters and themes. Tekgyozyan graduated from the…
Straight to Gay by Audrey Kouyoumdjian
Published in 2018, Straight to Gay: Coming Out Saved My Life Creating Joy and Health by Audrey Kouyoumdjian is the second [*] memoir written by an Armenian-American who identifies as a Lesbian. Kouyoumdjian…
Queering Yerevan
Published in 2008 and continuing through 2020, Queering Yerevan is a website featuring the work of "a collective of artists, writers, cultural critics and activists queering and using Yerevan as an experimental…