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Official "Vote NO on Prop 8" placard. In 2009, GALAS hosted a conference at West Hollywood's Plummer Park, entitled "The Road to Equality: The Past, Present and Future of the Gay Rights Movement," which concentrated on the aftermath of California Proposition 8 — which banned same-sex marriage in California — and ongoing cases in the California Supreme Court.
Holy Cross Armenian Cathedral (Montebello, California) Holy Trinity Church, Fresno; K. Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School; L. Little Armenia, Los Angeles; M.
Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Kegham Djeghalian, an Armenian-Palestinian photographer, known for his photographs documenting daily life and political events over four decades
This is a list of notable Armenian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.Armenian Americans are people born or raised in the United States, or who reside there, with origins in the country known as Armenia, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau.
From 2021 to 2023, 0.5% to 0.7% of Armenians attended UC Berkeley as new undergraduates; this was comparable to California being 0.7% Armenian, but with the vast majority of them living in Southern California as opposed to Northern California, this was disproportionate for the Bay Area having an estimated 0.2-0.3% Armenian American population.
The first Armenian families began to settle in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 19th century. Aram Yeretzian, a social worker and Protestant Christian minister who wrote a 1923 University of Southern California thesis on the Armenians of Los Angeles, stated that the first Armenian in Los Angeles arrived in around 1900.
Armenian American veterans from Boston in Washington on 14 April 1920. The first recorded Armenian to visit North America was Martin the Armenian, from Iran.He was an Iranian Armenian tobacco grower who settled in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1618.