An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years appeared in the Soviet Criminal Code on March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years."

Operating under the framework of the Soviet Union, legal gender recognition became possible under Resolution No. 1006 issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Item 2, sub-item 't' of these provisions allowed for the correction of personal data in civil registry records due to a change of sex. Civil Registry (ZAGS) offices processed these changes based on medical certificates, strictly conditioning the amendment on the applicant having undergone surgical correction. This was formalized by the USSR Ministry of Health's Methodological Guidelines for the Change of Sex (No. 10-91) in August 1991. Following Armenian independence in 1991, this Soviet administrative practice continued to function as the active legal basis for gender marker changes until the national parliament explicitly legislated on the matter.

Armenia was a member of the Soviet Union in 1972 and before then legal gender recognition was not provided.

In Armenia, Before 1983 gender-affirming care was not banned but was very restricted.

In Armenia, before 2022 sexual orientation or gender identity are not protected at all.

In Armenia, the age of consent have been decided to be 16 with male homosexuality still is criminalized at the time making female homosexuality legal and therefore have the same age of consent as heterosexuality.

In Armenia, the age of consent was quite ambiguous because it did not used a fixed chronological age of consent but rather it use the biological attachment of "sexual maturity"