Unzipped: Gay Armenia: Proud Armenians march at New York Gay Pride

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

Monday, 29 June 2009

Proud Armenians march at New York Gay Pride

As Tweeted by president of the Armenian gay rights group in New York - AGLA NY (below, with related thread):

Marching in NYC's Pride Parade with proud Armenians!
http://twitter.com/veken/status/2373398019

!! RT @veken Marching in NYC's Pride Parade with proud Armenians! #armenia #diaspora #gay
http://twitter.com/unzippedblog/status/2373585379

Soon in Erevan ? RT @unzippedblog: !! RT @veken Marching in NYC's Pride Parade with proud Armenians! #armenia #diaspora #gay
http://twitter.com/w2YDAvid/status/2373853096

@w2YDAvid I wish! But... Let's hope and work towards that ;)
http://twitter.com/unzippedblog/status/2375643792

*picture - via AGLA NY

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