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.
Unzipped: Gay Armenia by Mika Artyan
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.
My Gay Dream by Alex Ikke-Tuppel
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.
Dancing Man by Bob Avian
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
A Poet in Washington Heights by Christopher Atamian
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.
Swimming to Chicago by David-Matthew Barnes
Published in 2011, Swimming to Chicago by David-Matthew Barnes is the first [*] YA novel featuring a gay Armenian-American protagonist, Alex Bainbridge.
David-Matthew Barnes (“Wren”) is an author, playwright, poet, and screenwriter.
Right Side NGO
Right Side NGO’s mission is to ensure well-being, protection and equality of the trans community and sex workers in Armenia by achieving social-cultural and legal changes through cooperation with state bodies, civil society and with international organizations.
In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian
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.
Vahan Tekeyan – Your Name
Vahan Tekeyan (1878-1945) was an Armenian poet, and to some he is known as the “Prince of Armenian Poetry.” He founded the magazine Shirak in 1905. His poetry collections include Hoger (1901),
Mommyland:Flag by Armen of Armenia
Published in 2016, Mommyland:Flag by Armen of Armenia is the first [*] novel by a Queer Armenian who is native to the Republic of Armenia.
Armen of Armenia (Armen Ohanyan) is a fiction writer and essayist.