In July 2017, 14th Golden Apricot International Film Festival canceled its “Armenians: Internal and External Views” program, after the Union of Cinematographers in Armenia made a call that the two LGBTI+ films “Listen to Me: Untold Stories beyond Hatred” and “Apricot Groves” to be removed from the program. As an act of solidarity against the censorship and to create a bridge between queer movements in Turkey and Armenia--where the land borders have been closed since 1993--Pink Life Queerfest, the only film festival in Turkey, offered to screen the films in their 7th edition and invited activists and filmmakers from Armenia to the festival which would take place on January 2018 in Ankara. Yet, soon enough, the Turkish state issued a blanket ban that prohibits all LGBTI+ events for an indefinite period on the grounds of threatening “social sensitivities and sensibilities,” “public security,” “public health,” “public morality”. Thus, 7th Pink Life QueerFest could not be realized in Ankara as it was planned. Although these bans and restrictions aimed to suppress queer movements and impede queer cultural production, this paper illustrates how they have created an unprecedented alliance between queer and trans communities in Armenia and Turkey. I explore how Turkish and Armenian artists and activists came together and organized the “Beyond Borders, Beyond Censorship: Armenia LGBTI+ Cinema” program with two films that were censored in Armenia as well as ?”Beyond Borders, Beyond Censorship: LGBTI+ Movement in Armenia and Turkey” panel. Based on auto-ethnographic explorations of these two events as well as the oral history interviews with participants, organizers, and the audience, I analyze the potentiality of censorships/bans to create new intimacies, trans-local solidarities, and novel alliances between Turkey and Armenia despite ongoing geopolitical disputes.