Events

The Women's Support Group has had an eventful and active couple of years. We have conducted awareness workshops, held the Clothesline Project to voice issues of violence against women, and also participated in conferences to strengthen our group and its activities.

National workshops and metings

The WSG has regularly held awareness workshops and meetings on sexual health, sexual rights and sexuality. With the help of resource people from our own group and other organisations, we have been to various rural areas to hold these workshops. Our main aim in conducting these workshops is to raise visibility of the WSG as a support group for LBT women. In most instances, we have held these workshops for women community workers who are leaders in their own villages and districts. By addressing these women, we hope to bring attention to the stigma and discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in their own surroundings. Issues of sexuality and gender are intrinsically connected, and therefore, in our outreach activities we focus on gender awareness in relation to our society. The atmosphere created by our interactive sessions allowed them to relax and narrate many anecdotal stories to us about people in their communities who have lived lives that were “different.” We and our participants have both learnt from these workshops.

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International conferences forums

The Women's Support Group has participated in many important international conferences, workshops meetings and forums and has contributed and gain much for the LGBT community in Sri Lanka.

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Sporting Events

Solidarity Gaymes

The Women's Support Group together with Companions on a Journey made a groundbreaking move on the 13th of December 2008. For the first time in Sri Lanka a sporting event was held by and for the LGBTQI community in the island nation.

Read all about it also check out the blog www.solidaritygaymescolombo.wordpress.com

Gay Games

The Women's Support Group also participated at the Gay Games VI held in Sydney, Australia and VII in Chicago, U.S.A. and won medals at both the games.

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Cricket tournements

Women dominated sporting events are rare in Sri Lanka . This is even more difficult is finding a sports event that is not ‘traditionally' feminine. The Women's Support Group has organised all women cricket tournements to encourage women to take part in male dominated sports such as cricket..... Keep reading..

Community

Pride 2010

The Women's Support Group commemorated 2010 Pride with the first ever Procession from Kirulapone to Mount Lavinia.... Keep reading..

Art & Activism

The WSG has ventured into activism through the arts in the recent past in the understanding of art as an alternative mode of discussion.

Sathya (Shades of Grey)

This was held at the Punchi Theatre in June 2009. This was the WSG’s first venture into theatre as a device for expression and learning.... keep reading..

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