This paper aims to provide an overview of contemporary advocacy by and research on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other (LGBTQI+) community of Sri Lanka. The first part of the paper focuses on LGBTQI+ advocacy, looking at both the domestic and international levels and identifies what issues were raised at particular fora; what the resulting institutional outcomes were; and what the eventual Government responses were. The second part of the paper looks at research on LGBTQI+ issues in Sri Lanka, examining academic and non-academic, as well as local and international publications, and identifying a number of broad thematic areas of research.
