Comments

Coming out: Armenian lesbians raise the curtain

When Shushan first told her parents she is a homosexual, she felt all at once she is no more part of their family. Destroying the wall of double life in the family meant destroying also the perceptions of closeness according to traditional understanding of family, and building another wall estranging her from the parents.

A year later she declared of her being a homosexual all across Yerevan, when she, along with eight homosexual artist women friends, opened “Coming to you not to be with you” exhibition- video art, installation, fine arts, reading- at Utopiana NGO on 34 Zaroubyan street. The group members became the first female citizens of Armenia (two are Diaspora Armenians), which publicly revealed their homosexuality.

Reply

Comments are welcomed and encouraged. However, comments not pertaining to the topic or containing slander or offensive language will be deleted. You have to be registered to be able leave your comment. Sign in or Register now for free. See our Privacy Policy.
1
18.11.2011 18:24
First, I want to thank you for this article. Would highly appreciate if I somehow could get in touch with all those personages that share a common "taboo" sense with me. To be an Armenian homosexual is an immense moral/ethnical burden toward family and Armenian society. Unfortunetly, there are going to be many and many Armenian Homosexuals who will be forced to lock their sexual identity up for a long time unless it's will be world wide accepted and common thing for societies. It's all about mentality, traditions, and religious matter(s) that is drilled deep down into the society- and I cant judge those Armenian families (parents) who faced this phenomena becouse it is not what they were raised upon, but they need to learn to love their children in a right way and be happy for their childrens' own life decisions and try at least feel their adult childrens' needs. Im proud of my great nation and hope/ believe that one day Armenian society will embrace acceptance of sexual non-discrimination. Love it's all that matters!
Comments are welcomed and encouraged. However, comments not pertaining to the topic or containing slander or offensive language will be deleted.
The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><br><p>
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.