List of LGBT Armenians
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This is a list of LGBT Armenians, which includes Armenians, who are part of the LGBT disambiguation and have either stated publicly or outed as homosexual, transgender, lesbian, bisexual or queer. Those of partial Armenian descent are also included.
Activists
[edit]- Lilit Martirosyan – Armenian LGBTQ+ rights activist, transgender
Businesspeople
[edit]Cultural figures
[edit]- James Adomian – American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist, gay
- Nancy Agabian – American writer
- Ray Aghayan – American fashion designer and costume designer for the United States film industry, gay
- Eve Beglerian – contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent, lesbian
- Chaz Bono – American writer, musician and actor, transgender
- Yeghishe Charents – Armenian poet, writer and public activist, bisexual[1]
- Anoush Ellah – drag queen
- Arthur Gourounlian – Armenian-born professional dancer and television personality, gay
- Alexandra Hedison – American actress
- Sarmad Kashani – Armenian sufi mystic[2]
- Sergei Parajanov – Soviet movie director, bisexual[3]
- Armen Ra – Iranian-Armenian artist, self-taught thereminist, gay
- Julia Sedefdjian – French chef
- Karèn Shainyan – Russian journalist, LGBT activist, and YouTuber, gay
- George Stambolian – key figure in the early gay literary movement, gay
Political figures
[edit]- Grigor Aghtamartsi – catholicos of Armenia[4]
- King Pap – Pre-Christian king of Armenia[5]
- Jirair Ratevosian – former acting chief of staff to the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from 2022 to 2023, gay[6]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Boghossian, J. P. Der (2020-10-02). "Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution". The Queer Armenian Library. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Mugloo, Saqib (2023-07-10). "Rediscovering India's lost queer icons: a tour of Old Delhi's secret history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Parajanov embraced by LGBTQI community in Georgia". chaikhana. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Grigor Aghtamartsi". armeniapedia.org. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "P'awstos Buzand's History of the Armenians. Notable Iranian military personnel come to Armenia and are defeated. Childhood of the future king Pap (367-ca. 374), his homosexuality. Folklore of snakes, serpents, shoulders. The Armenian lords (naxarars) begin to abandon king Arshak. Arshak is summoned to Iran by Shapur, and he is forced to go. Armenian History, Byzantine History, Byzantium, Iranian History, Arsacids". www.attalus.org. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Tim Murphy (May 13, 2024). "HIV as the Common Denominator". POZ. Retrieved October 31, 2024.