![]() Rightwing media outlets had covered the two protests as a sign of Christian immigrant parents rising up against “woke policies” imposed by California’s liberal bureaucrats. Four days earlier, a group of angry protesters had gathered outside an elementary school in North Hollywood over a school assembly reading of a picture book that mentioned families with LGBTQ+ parents. The school board protest was the second education protest protest in less than a week in a Los Angeles-area neighborhood with a large Armenian community. He knew the conclusions queer kids in Glendale would draw from it. He knew how the protest would be portrayed. ![]() Now, as insults were being hurled at him and other activists, he felt frightened, but also heartbroken. But in the years since, he had become a LGBTQ+ rights activist, and the president of the largest queer Armenian organization in the US.Ĭoming out as queer in his immigrant community had not been easy, but he felt over the years there had been real progress towards acceptance. At the time, he said, he had been so deeply closeted that he was not even out to himself. It was a “display of hatred” the 30-year-old said he had never witnessed before that week.Īdamian had arrived in Glendale from Iran in 2008 at the age of 14, joining the large Armenian community in the quiet, palm-tree studded suburb of Los Angeles.
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