RAINBOW TILL CAMPAIGN 2026
Are you a business that values equality and equity?
Are you a business that values human diversity?
Are queer employees welcome?
Are queer customers welcome?
ideas about gender or sexuality. [Cambridge Dictionary]
Examples include those of us who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, non-binary, and Transgender.
Are you a business that would consider supporting Grassrooted’s arts-based approach to raising awareness on the realities facing queer people in Sri Lanka?
In 2025 we produced a series of videos in Sinhala with English subtitles that showcased medical professionals and community members demystifying issues that relate to the queer community in Sri Lanka with the aim of broadening the discourse on decriminalizing same-sex relationships in Sri Lanka.
Even if the current government follows through with their pledge to decriminalize same sex relationships by amending Section 365 of the penal code, a scientific, evidence- based approach is required to help us reflect on what we now know about different sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions that appear to violate norms and mores.
In 2026. we will continue to use both the historical lens, and scientific lens to show, for example, that homosexuality is neither deviant of our natural state, nor a “Western Concept.” We will also show that beginning in the early 70s, the scientific community, led by psychiatrists, has pushed back on the notion that homosexuality and/or bisexuality and non-heteronormative gender identities are mental illnesses.
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Help us inspire knowledge and kindness.
Becoming Me’ is a testament by Bhoomi in which, with characteristic humour, Bhoomi details the determination with which she overcame the obstacles to becoming who she is
In ‘Man playing chess on top of a car’ Danu Innasithamby plays a gay survivor of violence that plucks up the courage to report the incident to the Mirihana police.
Thank Aphrodite’ a story on sexual violence in school rugby, with Blok & Dino who were fearless in their approach, playing a gay couple that disagree on what is acceptable “ragging”.
Performed by Kumudini & Navoda Bennett, “Stitched showcases how non-binary people have always been a part of the Sri Lankan cultural fabric, despite attempts to demonize and villify them.
Veena played a Lesbian woman addicted to crystal methamphetamine [ICE] who fled to Saudi as a migrant worker to save herself. She also gives an account of how her sexuality kept her safe from sexual violence.