
The 2017 Rainbow Prize is awarded to Rickard Söderberg with the following motivation:
This year's Rainbow Prize is awarded to a person who for many years has worked tirelessly, with equal parts seriousness and a twinkle in his eye, for the equal rights of LGBTQ people. He has raised the issues in a wide variety of contexts and as a rainbow knight he has appeared in newspapers and television, as a blogger and summer speaker, as a dancer and choir director and not least on the opera stage.


