Released in 1969, The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov is his best known masterpiece. Commenting on the film, Martin Scorsese said, “I didn’t know any more about Sayat-Nova at the end of the picture than I knew at the beginning, but instead what Parajanov did was he opened a door into a timeless cinematic experience.”
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.
Published in 2019, Hold My Hand by Michael Barakiva is the sequel to his first novel One Man Guy. This is the third [*] young adult novel featuring a Gay Armenian-American protagonist.
Barakiva is a writer, director, and producer. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Upstart Creatures, a not-for-profit theatre company based in New York City.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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’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.
