Jirair Ratevosian gay congressional candidate for California’s 30th District
qvoicenews.comJirair Ratevosian, is Armenian and identifies as gay, is a candidate in the 2024 election for the House of Representatives in California’s 30th Congressional District, which has the largest population of Armenian Americans in the nation.
Photo: Provided by Jirair Ratevosian campaign Ukraine. Israel. Gaza. The world is full of war-torn hot spots, but beyond those in the headlines every day, there are others worth knowing about.
One of them is personal to Jirair Ratevosian, an Armenian American gay man and congressional hopeful. In late August and early September, Jirair Ratevosian visited Armenia and the disputed border region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is home to 120,000 Armenians but has been claimed by neighbor Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which residents refer to as the Republic of Artsakh, was blockaded by Azerbaijan beginning last December. Since then, its inhabitants have been cut off from food, medicine, and electricity, Ratevosian says.
