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.
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.
Forgotten Bread edited by David Kherdian
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.
My Armenian-American Family Legacy by Haig Chahinian
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
The Armenians of Pittsburgh by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Published in 2008, The Armenians of Pittsburgh by Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian is an essay featured in Queer Around the World: A LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology.
Nyri A. Bakkalian, Ph.D. is a queer Armenian-American by birth, a military historian by training, and is proud to have called the American and Japanese northeasts her home.
Aracheener or “Firsts”
In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the International Armenian Literary Alliance, with Hye-Phen Magazine and the Queer Armenian Library, hosted Aracheener, or “Firsts,” on June 12, 2021. Watch the recording below! It…
The Hye-Phen Magazine
The Hye-Phen Magazine was founded in 2014 as an online magazine and global collective to connect queer-minded Armenian artists, scholars, writers, and amplify our under-spoken stories, issues, ideas, and visions of the future.