The goals related to awareness raising include providing objective information about sexuality and gender to the trans community and mainstream society, organizing campaigns to raise awareness for trans and sex worker issues, and working with the media to ensure these issues are properly and fairly covered in the news.
GALAS LGBTQ+ Armenian Society hosted Right Side NGO founder Lilit Martirosyan in Glendale, California for a public discussion on the situation of LGBTQ+ people in Armenia, discrimination and human rights violations, and how supporters living in the United States can support LGBTQ+ people living in Armenia.
She speaks powerfully and with conviction, advocating for the “tortured, raped, burnt, stabbed, killed, banished, discriminated, poor and unemployed transgender people of Armenia.” [6] Her goal in speaking is to raise awareness of transgender and sex worker issues and implore the Armenian government to increase attention to trans human rights.
She states her objective to the parliament clearly: "I call upon you to carry out reforms and policies to achieve gender equality, and to ensure human rights for everyone.”[6] Her speech faced a significant backlash.
Martirosyan developed a pattern of anxiety and panic attacks in response to this backlash, which was dismissed by doctors when she sought medical attention.
There have not been any significant changes in LGBTIQ+ legislation since Martirosyan's historic 2019 speech to the General Assembly, but she argues that she has "at least brought some visibility to the country's transgender and gay communities.