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Contents:
- UNZIPPED: GAY ARMENIA BY MIKA ARTYAN
- IT'S HARD TO BE GAY ARMENIA
- GAY DATG OKLAHOMA
- BEG GAY AND ARMENIAN: THE STIGMA
- ANY YEREVAN REMENDATNS FOR GAY TRAVELERS? - YEREVAN FOM
- GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
- ORD TO ANYWHERESTOP WONRG, START WANRG.INFO: A GAY GUY'S GUI TO ARMENIA
- PORTRA OF A YOUNG GAY ARMENIAN MAN
UNZIPPED: GAY ARMENIA BY MIKA ARTYAN
Life for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people Armenia, a socially nservative society where homophobia remas entrenched, is not easy. The difficulti are multiplied for those livg outsi the pal, where society is even ls tolerant towards LGBT people. Socialisg is particularly difficult, wh no LGBT-iendly venu and few public plac where gay people n be sure they will not be subject to abe. * gay armenia ok *
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Life for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people Armenia, a socially nservative society where homophobia remas entrenched, is not difficulti are multiplied for those livg outsi the pal, where society is even ls tolerant towards LGBT people. Socialisg is particularly difficult, wh no LGBT-iendly venu and few public plac where gay people n be sure they will not be subject to (not his real name), 25, said that there were no public entertament spac Gyumri or Vanadzor, the untry´s send and third largt ci rpectively, where LGBT people uld feel safe. “Yerevan also do not have a particularly iendly attu towards gays, but this is the only place Armenia where you n feel relatively ee, ” he Gabrielyan, head of the New Generatn NGO, believ that such tolerant attus towards LGBT people more remote plac of the untry has ed ternal migratn.
Outsi the pal, is extremely difficult to live a gay liftyle, ” Gabrielyan said, whose anisatn works to protect the rights of LGBT people across Armenia. 8 per cent of the 1, 017 people terviewed said they did not want to see gay upl holdg hands the street and 97.
GAY DATG OKLAHOMA
Among the hundreds of rtrants, pubs and ffee shops Yerevan, not a sgle public entertament venue ters to the members of the LGBT 2012, the DIY Club Yerevan - known as a gay hangout – was firebombed and s owner harassed.
(See also Gay Rights Unr Attack Armenia) then, no one has dared to open a public entertament venue for LGBT people Armenia. There is a private social club for gay men and transgenr women Yerevan, which is open daily to members and their (not her real name) the club’s 32-year-old director, is origally om Vanadzor. When she moved to the pal to jo her brother, she found out that he was gay.
BEG GAY AND ARMENIAN: THE STIGMA
Sometim I jt say that this is a gay club, and people will go away.
ANY YEREVAN REMENDATNS FOR GAY TRAVELERS? - YEREVAN FOM
It proved that the muny needs such events, ” Sarkis Ishkhanyan, edor--chief of Inknagir Lerary Magaze, has wrten about LGBT issu for a long first article on gay men was published 2002, when homosexualy was still officially illegal Armenia. When I published my first article, after readg , one of the lol edors said wh fear that he wouldn't like his son to read this article, ” Iskhanyan followg year Armenia joed the Council of Europe and homosexualy was crimalised. “Today, there are homosexuals who publilly acknowledge their sexual orientatn, ” Ishkhanyan said.
GLOBALGAYZ: THE BOOK
“In the 2000s, there were many s of homosexuals who were murred. This is the first part of a multi-seri report alg wh Armenians and Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr dividuals.
ORD TO ANYWHERESTOP WONRG, START WANRG.INFO: A GAY GUY'S GUI TO ARMENIA
” Organized by the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and held April sce 1996, the day was tend to regnize how gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr youth have been “silenced” by harassment and bullyg schools. Ble channel, for which she pays $500 to $800 for an hour long slot, acrdg to the Los Angel Tim, to tell Armenian parents that the “Natnal Day of Silence” was promotg a homosexual agenda and that children should be kept out of school on that day. “Don’t be fooled by the Day of Silence, which is a ver-up and realy is to promote homosexualy, ” wrote Glendale rint Martik Abramian.
PORTRA OF A YOUNG GAY ARMENIAN MAN
“We need to have a day of awarens stead of a Day of Silence and teach stunts about the dangers of homosexual life and s stctive nsequenc. Haig Boyadjian, 33, was print of the Gay and Lbian Armenian Society of Los Angel (GALAS) when Khachatrian spoke out agast the Day of Silence. “Homosexualy not only exists, exists wh the Armenian muny.
The members of gay and lbian society are the children and grandchildren of the Armenian muny.
We are lbian, gay, bisexual and trans-genr and there is nothg wrong wh .