Armenia: Homophobic Media · Global Voices
Onnik Krikorian

Despite the country's recent endorsement of a UN declaration against discrimination on sexual orientation, Unzipped: Gay Armenia continues to expose the prevalent homophobia in Armenian society. Following recent discriminatory and alarmist comments from a leading member of civil society, the blog notes that one newspaper has discovered there are lesbians registered on a Russian social networking site and more alarmingly, it says with irony, they are Armenian.