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We Are All Georgian LGBT Rights Activists 18 May 2013 | 10:45 pm
Violence erupted in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, today as thousands of counter protestors attacked a peaceful demonstration organized by gay rights activists to mark the International Day Against Ho...
Civil Society and NGOs in Armenia 24 Mar 2013 | 05:19 pm
Is the existence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) equivalent to civil society? That is, the more NGOs you have, the more civil society you have. What does civil society mean, anyway? Before I ...
Protesting Same-Sex Marriage and Adoption: What’s the Real Reason? 14 Jan 2013 | 08:34 pm
A BBC article titled “Mass Paris rally against gay marriage in France” I read this morning has really got my knickers in a knot (excuse the expression). Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that the issues...
In all honesty… 10 Jan 2013 | 01:10 am
I have been contemplating ideas for the title of this blog post for a few days now with contenders such as “Family Portrait” (because I recently visited my family and there’s always so much to say and...
Watching Parada and Not in Armenia 15 Nov 2012 | 03:52 am
I have mixed emotions over the fact that I was able to watch the "controversial" film Parada tonight — but, unfortunately, this film screening did not take place in Yerevan. It was screened as part of...
Yerevan Screening of Serbian Film on LGBT Rights Cancelled AGAIN 18 Oct 2012 | 02:04 am
Sometimes it seems that it takes years for things to happen in Armenia, while other times things develop so quickly that if you blinked you just might miss the latest development. One of these develo...
Reminiscing... Brazilian Music in Yerevan 5 Oct 2012 | 05:10 pm
Today, I remembered a woman in Armenia I met many, many years ago — young, beautiful, and married to a man slightly older than herself with a beer belly like those of so many men you see in Armenia to...
Georgia on My Mind 23 Jun 2012 | 08:11 pm
I just saw this video and it totally made my day: Incidentally, I came across another video by Georgian activists a few weeks ago that also had me saying "Respects!". In the video "Men for Gender Equ...
Armenian Broadcast of Eurovision in Baku an Exercise in Propaganda 17 Jun 2012 | 03:22 pm
I wrote this article on May 27, a day after the Grand Final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, with the intention of having it published immediately on Media.am. I submitted it to the editors of thi...
A New Name: Making Connections 25 May 2012 | 05:05 am
(I just realized that this post follows one titled “Not in My Name”. The name theme is purely a coincidence as I’ve been planning to change the name of this blog for quite some time now!) Like many o...
