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Armenia: Homophobia

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 @ 07:36 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

This is a Video post

Countries:: Armenia
Topics:: Human Rights, LGBT, War & Conflict
Languages:: English

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The Armenian Gay & Lesbian Association of NY posts a short video of a recent presentation on homophobia in Armenia. Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the video in a separate post which also includes an excerpt detailing a documented case of rape in the Armenian army.

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