As part of our LGBT youth programme “New Rainbows” we have organised a series of creative workshops with young LGBT people in Uganda, where same sex relations are illegal. In these workshops we worked with choreographers, recording studios and camera crews, letting young LGBT community...
Here is a picture from our latest creative workshops in Mumbai, India, led by India’s first avantgarde drag performer Tropical Marca, as part of our new LGBT youth programme “New Rainbows”. In this programme we arrange workshops for young LGBT people around the world to...
Rainbow Riots are proud to present our new LGBT youth programme “New Rainbows” with community activities for LGBT+ teens and young adults all over the world! During Stockholm Pride this summer we teamed up with our partners, famous Swedish drag theatre company Bland drakar och dragqueens...
Our new song "We Don't Care" featuring queer artists from all over the world has received airplay from 3 Australian radio stations - Queer for your ears on Eastside FM, JOY FM and 104 CHY FM! Thank you for the support! ...
"Rainbow Riots is an award-winning non-profit organisation that uses creative collaborations with queer artists to create change, often in countries where it is illegal or controversial to be LGBTQ. Founded by Petter Wallenberg, the Swedish musician and activist recognised an international capacity for individuals to...
Thank you Scandinavia's biggest LGBT magazine QX: "Just the other day, the music video for We Don't Care was released, the Swedish-produced song in which Petter Wallenberg and Rainbow Riots have invited close to 50 queer voices from all corners of the world to sing for acceptance....
Sweden's biggest LGBT magazine QX wrote about our new music video which is filmed in Sweden, Uganda, India, Jamaica and USA - all in the same song and video! Pictured is a the scene that was filmed in Sweden. It shows the song's composer and the video's director,...
Thank you Swedish radio Kulturnytt I Radio P1 for a great interview! Listen here: ...
”The point of Rainbow Riots is to show that homosexuality and all types of gender experimentation are illegal in as many as 70 countries. In Uganda, you can be sentenced to life imprisonment if you have sex with a person of the same sex. So...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVlBbnpsIek For the past 5 years, Rainbow Riots' founder, Swedish artist Petter Wallenberg has travelled around the world to record the track "We Don't Care" with queer voices from four continents. This includes countries like Uganda and Jamaica, where it is illegal to be LGBT. In...