Unzipped: Gay Armenia

Few light-hearted stories and observations from Yerevan. Let’s start with a joke that made me burst into laughing. (you have to know Armen...

Turkey In Turkey, following the decision of the Ankara Public Prosecutor Office to seize an LGBT magazine in 2006, which was justified on t...

Great news: Armenian/Azeri gay love story Artush and Zaur to turn into the film. EXCLUSIVE: Ali Akbar's Artush and Zaur will be filmed...

I’ve been waiting for this since it has been published. Thanks to the info provided by Alekper Aliyev, the author of “Artush and Zaur”...

The 11th issue of the only LGBT magazine in the South Caucasus - Me, is out now. I would specifically recommend “Homophobia in Georgia: Two ...

I defend homosexual romanticism over war romanticism. It is acceptable when two men kill each other, but is it a sin when they sleep togethe...

Society remains as relentlessly homophobic here as elsewhere in the Caucasus, but activists say there some grounds for hope. IWPR (Institute...

Yeterday Alekper Aliyev, the author of Artush and Zaur , posted about banning his book and meeting with the readers at Ali and Nino bookstor...

Artush and Zaur novel by Alekper Aliyev about a gay love story between an Armenian and Azerbaijani against the backdrop of the emerging Kar...

Alekper Aliyev, editor-in-chief of kultura.az , the author of Artush and Zaur - gay love story between Armenian and Azerbaijani, started bl...

Nigar Kocharli, owner of the Ali and Nino bookstore chain in Baku, the only one which sells Artush and Zaur - gay love story between Armeni...

Remember that infamous statement of ‘no gays in Iran’ by Iranian president Ahmadinejad which made him a laughing stock worldwide. Very diff...

One shopkeeper said the controversial novel had been “selling like hot cakes” * Gay Novel Shocks Azeris (IWPR: "Book about love affair...

Alekper Aliyev, editor-in-chief of kultura.az , has published, as he put it, his “most scandalous” novel “Artush and Zaur” in Baku. It’s a g...