Eastsiders by Kit Williamson is a television series that first aired on YouTube and is now available on Netflix. The series features a gay Armenian character (4 episodes) played by Aram Kirakosian, who also goes by the stage name Adam Ramzi.
Kirakosian plays Vardan a love interest of a main character exploring his bisexuality. Kirakosian guest starred in a first season episode and had a three-episode arc in the fourth and final season.
In its first season, Eastsiders explores the aftermath infidelity can wreak on a gay couple living in Silverlake. However, in its second season it took off into a sex-positive introspective of monogamy, polyamory, marriage, STIs, gender, bisexuality, finances, adoption, and careers. The series was nominated for numerous awards, twice winning Best Ensemble from Indie Series awards, and two Daytime Emmy Awards for casting and guest performer.
I grew up in suburban Los Angeles, in an Armenian American household. Sex was never something openly discussed, but access to pornography was not at all difficult. So that was helpful, of course. […] The most important thing to me is community. As queer people, the families we choose are sometimes more important than blood relatives, and a lot of this is borne of our shared experiences. Members of the gay porn industry have a very unique understanding of a rather large component of our community’s collective sexual experience, and some of the connections I’ve made here are very important to me.
Interview with the Bay Area Reporter
