Leap by Brent Love
Published in 2024, Leap by Brent Love is a memoir that details his experiences when he came out to his American family and then three days later began a two-year Peace Corp…
Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz
Published in 2023, Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz is a short story collection exalting and lampooning the queer experience while examining the sometimes surreal obstacles of marginalization. Jacob Budenz is a queer writer,…
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian
Published in 2024, The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian is his debut poetry collection. In it he shares his story, of a self estranged from the world around him as…
The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough edited by Tatevik Sargsyan
Published in 2021, The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough edited by Tatevik Sargsyan is an anthology about queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Tatevik Sargsyan is the…
Keepers of the Stones and Stars by Michael Barakiva
Published in 2024, Keepers of the Stones and Stars by Michael Barakiva is a fantasy YA novel about a group of five teens chosen by magical gems to save the world. With…
Azad Archives
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.
The Roach by René Zadoorian
Published in 1990, In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian is one of the first, if not the first [*], short stories written about and by a gay Armenian-American.
Stambolian published the story in his Men on Men: Best New Fiction series.
Comedian James Adomian
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.
Comedian Movses Shakarian
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.
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…