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Ordinary People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova

Published in 2023, Ordinary People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova is a series of color portraits, accompanied by short interviews, of LGBTQ Armenians, Georgians, and Russians. Ksenia…

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.

Lion Woman’s Legacy by Arlene Voski Avakian

Published in 1992, Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir is the first [*] memoir written by an Armenian-American woman and Lesbian Armenian-American.
Avakian (born 1939) is an Armenian-American academic specializing in women’s studies and food history.