A message to the world from a member of Rainbow Riots Uganda: Discrimination, homophobia and victimization is a reality for LGBT people in Uganda. Especially for us who are living in the slums. Everyone knows everyone’s business. You fear for your life every day. People in...
A message to the world from Rainbow Riots Uganda: Uganda’s parliament has proposed a horrifying new law that criminalises even identifying as LGBT. Anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality" - could face the death penalty. This is one of the toughest pieces of anti-gay legislation in Africa. Rainbow...
A message to the world from Rainbow Riots Uganda: In Uganda the situation for LGBT+ people is getting worse. In this East African country it is already illegal to be LGBT+, and now the parliament is once again discussing reintroducing the Anti homosexuality bill, commonly known...
Here is a photo from Rainbow Riots latest music workshop with young LGBT people in Uganda. We had such a great time in the studio! In Uganda it’s illegal to be LGBT, so Rainbow Riots use creativity as a tool to strengthen the community in...
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....