Published on April 24, 2015, I Didn’t Have to Procreate to Carry on my Armenian-American Family Legacy is a op-ed published in The Washington Post by Haig Chahinian.
Chahinian is a writer and guidance counselor, which he describes as helping, “professionals find work they love.” His writing on race, parenting, and life as he knows it has appeared in The Washington Post, O The Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times.
My whole life, my father beseeched me to marry a woman of Armenian descent and have children to carry on our bloodline. At 32, while working in a remote village in Armenia, I met the perfect potential fiancée […] The only problem was that I didn’t love Naira in a way that could realize my father’s wishes. I’m gay and had hoped to marry a man.
-Haig Chahinian
You can visit Chahinian’s website to read more of his articles, including:
11 Things Not to Say to Gay Parents (Cosmopolitan)
The Genocide Lives on in Me (100 Lives)
A Good Reason to #EndFathersDay (Los Angeles Times)
