Young LGBTQI people have recognized that it is important to address the intolerable levels of homophobia, gender-based violence, as well as the lack of social and psychological networks within the Free State.

Free State Rainbow Seeds hopes to address the lack of leadership in the LGBTQI+ community which fails to tackle issues of systematic exclusion from broader society, cultural, educational, religious, and public health institutions. To redefine and set up local, provincial as well as national support networks to mobilise resources that aid with the specific needs and interests of LGBTQI+ people in the Free State.