Over at Global Voices, Onnik Krikorian has a lot to say about the wealth of LGBT Armenian blogs:
…the number of LGBT blogs from Armenia and the Diaspora has mushroomed. In part, this is probably because of the important precedent set by Unzipped: Gay Armenia. The blogger from Armenia now resident in England truly did cover sensitive issues such as gender, homosexuality and homophobia in what still remains a largely male-dominated patriarchal society with little regard for sexual minorities or women’s rights.
Read the whole amazing article with tons of facts and quotes here.
Here is a list of all the LGBT Armenian blogs mentioned in the article:
- Unzipped: Gay Armenia (the pioneer)
- An Armenian Lesbian Blog
- The Thoughts of a Californian Garmo in Europe
- Queering Yerevan
- AGLA NY (hey, that’s us!)
- Hye Trent
- PINK Armenia (which is the only one actually based in Armenia)