Released in 2016, Listen to Me, produced by Pink Armenia, is the first [*] documentary film about Queer Armenians living in Armenia.
The film features 10 Queer folx who took on the risk to discuss their lives in Armenia on-camera.
Pink Armenia
From the PINK Armenia website: “Pink” human rights defender non-governmental organization was founded in 2007. The organization is known to its beneficiaries and the public as Pink Armenia. Pink is a community-based…
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.
Tangerine directed by Sean Baker
Released in 2015, Tangerine by writer/director Sean Baker was a historic first in a number of regards, including the fact that the film featured two transgender women as the lead characters, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor.
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.
Transition by Chaz Bono
Published in 2012, Transition: Becoming Who I was Always Meant to Be by Chaz Bono is the first [*] memoir by a transgender man of Armenian-American descent.
Bono is an American character actor and activist.
Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edwards
Published in 2016, Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edward is the second [*] memoir published by a transgender man of Armenian-American descent.
Chris made his advertising debut in 1993 as a copywriter at Arnold Worldwide,
Sergio Y. by Alexandre Vidal Porto
Published in 2016, Sergio Y. by Alexandre Vidal Porto is the first [*] novel featuring a transgender Armenian-Brazilian woman as a titular character.
Vidal Porto is a writer, diplomat, and social activist.
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.