"LGBTQ people in Uganda live under constant threat and as late as last Saturday 100 people were arrested in a homophobic police raid in Kampala. Now Swedish Petter Wallenberg (founder of Rainbow Riots) has opened a community centre in the country where LGBTQ people can...
In Uganda it’s illegal to be gay. LGBT people risk being arrested or becoming victims of violence. They have no safe space. Rainbow Riots is on a mission to change this. Thanks to donations from private individuals around the world and a fundraising campaign run by...
Thank you QWEERIST for this interview with Rainbow Riots's founder Petter Wallenberg. Read here: ...
Last week an event was held in Mumbai to celebrate the one year anniversary of India’s decriminalization of same-sex love. India’s first transgender dance group Dancing Queens performed our song ”Freedom” that our Swedish founder Petter Wallenberg made with our LGBT collaborators in Uganda. This display of unity shows that...
Today is the 1 year anniversary of everyone's equal right to love in India, as it's one year ago that the law against same-sex relations was abolished. To celebrate this we launch the final release from our album Rainbow Riots India, featuring India's first openly...
As part of our new album "Rainbow Riots India", Rainbow Riots' founder, Swedish musican Petter Wallenberg has been in Mumbai collaborating on music with India's first LGBT choir Rainbow Voices Mumbai! This project started when same-sex love was a crime in India, and by the end of it -...
"Historic performance at Stockholm Pride: "It's like experiencing Stonewall. This weekend Petter Wallenberg's Rainbow Riots India performed at Stockholm Pride. Their performance will be historic as the first time Indian performers performed at an International Pride." Thank you Sweden's biggest gay magazine QX for this wonderful article...
Thank you so much Sweden's biggest news show TV4 Nyheterna for making this wonderful feature about our new project Rainbow Riots India and calling our show at Stockholm Pride "historic". Watch here: ...
Today at 12 we are doing a seminar about our project Rainbow Riots India at Pride House during Stockholm Pride in Sweden. Come down and hear India's LGBT pioneers talk about life after decriminalization of same-ex love in the worlds largest democracy! More info here: ...
Sweden's biggest tabloid Aftonbladet interviewed our founder, Swedish musician Petter Wallenberg and his Indian collaborators Tropical Marca and Dancing Queens and it looks pretty fab! Read article and see TV feature here: ...