Eva against homosexuality or discrimination from "Aravot" daily

As I promised, I met Eva Hakobyan, a journalist from "Aravot" newspaper. I had some questions which were not still clear for me. At first I showed her the rules of Odnoklassniki.ru website and asked her how could she use the pictures of girls in her article without any permission? She answered that she had rights to do it, as she talked to those girls and they let her to use their pictures, though Eva couldn't show me anything to prove it.
Then I asked about that 99.9% Armenian men who don't accept lesbians, how she found that percentage? She answered that it was result of simple survey among 100 Armenian men, and here is another question, how she counted 99.9% from 100 replies? This is a simple mathematics!
Anyhow she tried to prove that she didn't write her opinion and those are thoughts of Armenian society (upon her perfect survey).
We also talked about the other article about HIV, where she announced another kind of "public opinion": HIV can be transmitted mainly from sex workers. Here I explained that such article makes people to accept this version, and she wondered: "Isn't it like that?".
Coming back to the topic about homosexuality, she was sure that homosexuality is disease, sure this was her opinion but she couldn't explain me why. The best part started when Nelly Grigoryan started her aggressive conversation with me, trying to prove that homosexuality is not only disease but it is sexual perversion. Where she found it from, I wondered, did she read it somewhere, maybe she had any proves? "Yes I read many books",- she replied. "So please, send me the list of literature to my e-mail address",- I asked. She promised to send, but I suspect. All the time Eva and Nelly tried to convince that those are their opinions and nohow it can be connected with "Aravot" newspaper. In that case how the newspaper could let the journalist to publish such stupid and uneducated article.
By the way if somebody wants to see their staff, especially Eva and Nelly please visit their webpage.
If less informed people read Eva's article, they can conclude that: HIV transmits mainly from sex workers, or homosexuality is disease and sexual horrible perversion, or heterosexual guys hate lesbians.

How it can be possible when most of the porn channels are showing lesbian sex for men; many scientists and researchers from all over the world are still trying to clarify issues about homosexuality; HIV specialists are still informing everybody that we all are responsible for our sexual health.
... but the young lady can manipulate society with her non-professional survey in her articles.

Mamikon Hovsepyan

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PINK Armenia started online activities since 2007, even before official registration. We have opened web-groups in social networking sites to reach out to the wider audience: MySpace, Facebook and Odnoklassniki pages; Armenian LGBT Community discussion group on Yesoudo; videos in Youtube. Soon after the establishment we started blogging.
Today we are happy to announce about our official website which you can see very soon. For all of these we highly appreciate our friend's help, who creating the website, chose the domain for us. This is the biggest gift that we ever had and it's going to be the beginning of a new stage for PINK.

Kind letters to Eva Hakobyan

These days we got e-mails from people who had or tried to have some contact with the journalist of Aravot newpaper Eva Hakobyan. I would like to remind you that she wrote a horrible article about lesbian and LGBT in general.
Here they forwarded their letters to me, so I thought you'll be interested to read them also and see what is Eva thinking. Authors of those letters don't mind to post them in our blogs. I am sorry the letters are in Armenian.
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From Levon Stepanyan: Barev Eva
Hargeli Eva inchpes duq karox eq goxanal urishi lusankarner@ ev
hraparakel tertum. Dzez ov e ayd iravunq@ tvel. Es haskanum em, vor
duq hamardzak andznavorutyun eq, tpagrelov aydpisi hodvac. Bayc nmank
kargi hodvac tpagreluc araj petq e xorapes bari bun imastov xorapes
usumnasireiq inch e nshanakum miaserakan asvac@. Inch e nshanakum
linel miaserakan ev aprel miaserakani kyanqov. Lragrox@ chpetq e ir
andznakan karciq@ tpagri tertum. Duq inch giteq, vor txamardik chen
sirum lesbian kananc. Qani txamardu eq harcrel ayd masin.
Avelacnem, vor duq` homophobnert, cheq marci dzer arac@. Vax te ush
stipvac klineq @ndunelu.
Uxaki mi poqr spaseq........................

Dzer terti havatarim @ntercox

Barev
hargeli Levon Stepanyan, Yes aydpes el chhaskaca te inch e dzer uzac@ ?
Uzum eq xosel ? harcazruyc tal ? isk ov eq duq masnagitutyamb, koxmnoroshumov yev @ndhanrapes ? Qnnadatum eq im hodvac@! shat normal e ! ev heto da dzer karciqn e, dzer sahmanadrakan iravunq@...
Guce aveli parz xoseq ?
Anhamber kspasem dzer patasxanin

Barev Eva Hakobyan
Shnorhakal em, vor patasxaneciq namakis. Mi poqr im masin patmem, qani vor namakum harcrel eq. Es masnagitutyamb matematikos em, @ndhanrapes es mi mard em, vor@ payqarum e mardu iravunqneri pashtpanutyan hamar.
Te ov em es im koxmnoroshvacutyamb da bolorovin kap chuni ayn hodvaci het, vor@ indz dur chi ekel. Isk inch verabervum e ayn artahaytutyan@ 'da dzer karciqn e', hima el es pndum em, vor AYO da dzer karciqn e tertum grvac. Duq inch giteq hay txamardik sirum en miaser(lesbian) kananc te, voch? Ete hstak giteq, apa apacuceq. Ete hamakargich@ tuyl e talis copy paste funkcianeric ogtvel, apa da chi nshanakum, vor karox eq urish mardkanc nkarner@ vercnel ev texadrel tertum u
anpatvel. Duq inch giteq inch e nshanakum linel miaserakan. Inch verabervum e im harcazruyc talun, vor duq nshel eiq, es patrast em, dem ar dem nstenq ev zrucenq. Ev im amen mi asac bari hamar es patasxanatu em.
Harganqnerov Levon Stepanyan

Hargeli Levon arden asel eq vor dzez dur chi ekel im hodvac@, yes el patasxanel em vor da shat normal e u amenevin el partadir che u voch el hnaravor vor mer tertum tpagrvac hodvacner@` ays depqum im grac@ havanen bolor@.
Teyev partavor chem, bayc amen depqum Patasxanem dzer harcerin !
Levon- Duq inch giteq hay txamardik sirum en miaser(lesbian) kananc te, voch?@,
Eva- @st im harcumneri txamardkanc mecamasnutyan@ dur chen galis aydpisiq. ete duq hakarak karciqi eq, da urish harc e.
Levon-Ete hamakargich@ tuyl e talis copy paste funkcianeric ogtvel, apa da chi nshanakum, vor karox eq urish mardkanc nkarner@ vercnel ev texadrel tertum u
anpatvel.
Eva-voch miayn hamakargichn e tuyl tvel, aylev nranq um nkarner@ tpagrvel e, anpatvelu masin xosq linel chi karox, nman ban chi exel, Pearzapes @nkalman harc e....
Levon-Duq inch giteq inch e nshanakum linel miaserakan.
Eva-Inch vor gitem miaserakanneri masin da indz lriv bavararum er tvyal hodvac@ grelis, avelin imanalu anhrajeshtutyun tvyal depqum ckar, vorovhetev da gitakan ashxatanq cher, ajl parzapes hodvac, vor@ lriv hamapatasxanum er skzbunqnerin. Ete cheq nkatel asem, mez mot amen inch grvum e shat parz, , vor@ hasaneli e cankacac @ntercoxi.

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From Homophobic Media: Hargeli Eva,
dzer verjin nyuteric mekum duq tuyl eq tvel mec sxal
http://new.aravot.am/am/articles/culture/54469/view
viravorel mardkanc inqnutyun@ ogtagorcel grehik barer, der avelin xaxtel
nranc iravunqner@, goxanalov irenc nkarner@ & texadrel aravot tertum,
votnaharel bolor iravunqner & nyentarkel nranc xtrakanutyan
zhamanakn e sxali hamar neroxutyun haytnel, nmanatip tgitututyun@
chkrknelu npatakov, aylapes kentarkveq patasxanatvutyan.
Sa aravot terti miak animast nyut@ che, sakayn mi qani zgushacumic het
duq der sprum em atelutyun, zzvanq, tgitutyun
Kangnecreq apatexekatvutyun@, mi greq nyuter yete gaxapar angam chuneq
temayi masin, amot e

(patasxan chka)
(no reply)

Inchu e lruv Evan???
Mer shat sireli Eva Hakobyan, hunvari 23-in dzer e-mail em grel, u der voch mi ardzaganq chem lsel dzer koxmic, haskanum em miguce chi hasel, kam el sxalmamb jnjel eq. Isk mite antesel eq u animast eq hamarel ayn?
amen depqum krkin em uxarkum hin namakis krknorinak@, sirov

(der patasxan chka)
(still no reply)

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From PINK Armenia: (08 Fab 2009)......inchpes giteq arden boxoqi namak e uxxordvel ombudsmenin, vori nerqo storagrel enq nayev menq, mianalov bac namakin, nayev irenc zayruytn en haytnel dzer terti handep bavakan hzor mijazgayin karuycner
Hashvi arnelov mer u hasarakutyan anhangstutyun, cankutyun enq haytnum qnnarkel harc@ dzer het miasin.
Hark chka mtacelu te vomanq tshnamabar en tramadrvac dzez, inchpes duq eq tshanamabar tramadrvac mardkanc dzer nyuterum, uxxaki ays xndir@ parzabanelu hamar cankutyun unenq anmijapes zrucel dzez het u porcenq jnjel bolor mut ankyunner@.
Inchpes karox enq ays amen@ kazmakerpel?
Menq partavor enq ajakcel hasarakutyan@, ovqer anpatasxan en mnacel kam el kopit patasxan en stacel irenc namaknerin. Sakayn chi nshanakum vor dem enq durs galis Aravot tertin kam andzamb dzez

Haskanalov vor namakics heto shat harcer karajanan, hetevabar xndrum em aveli ardyunavet lucum tanq, porcenq handipel, qnnarkel u aveli parz lusabanel, nyuti kam boxoqneri chshgrtutyun@

Harganqnerov
Mamikon Hovsepyan

hajord or@ Evan zangaharec u vorosh hangamanqneric yelnelov aveli npatakaharmar e handipum@ kazmakerpel irenc grasenyakum, xndir chka
manramasner@ kgrven handipumic het

Making the ribbon

First time in Armenia people were ready to make the Red Ribbon with their faces, to be open for society. This poster we used for the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.

This world is for everybody

Here we present another social ad, which is created by the students of Yerevan State University. This video is one of their final term works, as they will graduate the University and become social workers. Marine, Nvard, Nare, Anna and Lusine started to shoot this video from December 1st, we managed to find time and take part in it, though all of us where so busy especially that day.
We appreciate their professionalism and proud of their bravery, happy to see more real social workers next to us.

English text of the video*

- Being homosexual is not a choice,
- Being infected with HIV, doesn't stop me being your friend,
- By denying me, you don't help me to leave drugs
- I am a sex worker...
- My mother is the best mother in the world
- We all are equal, this world is for everybody