George Stambolian Archives - The Queer Armenian Library

Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin

Published in 1992, Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin features a gay Armenian-American character, Jeff Kassabian. Maupin’s inspiration for the character was George Stambolian. Stambolian was an American educator, writer, and editor of Armenian descent.

In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian

Published in 1990, In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian is one of the first, if not the first [*], short stories written about and by a gay Armenian-American.
Stambolian published the story in his Men on Men: Best New Fiction series.