Imagining a Truly Inclusive Sri Lanka

Photo courtesy of EFE “Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other,” wrote Leo Buscaglia in his seminal 1972 book based on the world’s first university course on love. Labels are containers. They are meant to define you but in doing so they also limit you. For decades, one community that has lived under the weight of such labels is the LGBTIQ+ community. In Sri Lanka, the situation is uniquely complicated. Same-sex marriage is not legally recognized. While the law technically allows a person to change their gender on official documents, the process is long, invasive and…

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