Armenian Gay Rights Movement: Key Events

  • December 2008 - Armenia endorses historic UN statement against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • September 2008 - PINK Armenia launches Information Centre in Yerevan
  • May 2008 - Armenian gay women group, the Women-Oriented Women’s (WOW) Collective, was established
  • December 2007 - PINK Armenia, second LGBT related NGO, was registered in Armenia
  • July 2006 - WFCE (also known as Menq), first LGBT NGO in Armenia, was formally registered by the Ministry of Justice
  • June 2006 - First (reported) symbolic gay wedding in Echmiadzin, Armenia
  • October 2004 – AGLA France organised first ever picket in front of the Armenian embassy in Paris. Around 30 gay activists protested on 30 October against homophobic outbursts by political forces and media in Armenia. AGLA's open letter to then president Kocharyan was published in Haykakan Zhamanak daily.
  • November 2003 - GLAG, first ever gay and lesbian Armenian group, was formed in Yerevan. Later, it was transformed into Menq - WFCE NGO
  • December 2002 - Decriminalisation of gay male sex in Armenia
  • December 2001 - AGLA France was established (ceased to exist in October 2007)
  • 1998 - LA Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society (GALAS) was established. Subsequently, LGBT associations were established in Armenian Diaspora elsewhere

Friday, 4 July 2008

Yerevan park 'outlaws' love making



ATTENTION!

Love making in this park is absolutely prohibited

Administration

Via Reporter-arm, these hilarious announcements which recently appeared in one of Yerevan central parks - English park. You have to know Armenian to get fully the hilariousness of these announcements (with accompanied spelling error). I am not even sure that I translated right the word "sirabanutyun" (something like "love making"). But you got the idea :) They call it "sirabanutyun". What they really mean is... cruising which this park is known for. (I doubt there is direct Armenian equivalent of "cruising"?)
Posted by artmika at 01:43
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