A new report that Outright International released notes 90 percent of LGBTQ rights groups around the world have lost funding since January 2025.
Forty-nine percent of the organizations said they have lost more than half of their total budget since January 2025, and 75 percent of the groups said they lost more than a quarter of their total funding.
“What was initially framed as a temporary freeze has become a structural disruption,” notes the report. “The effects have cascaded far beyond US government funding: corporate, institutional, and philanthropic donors have also shifted, stalled, or quietly withdrawn, often without public scrutiny.”
“The broader environment in which LGBTQ movements operate has continued to deteriorate — with democratic backsliding, anti-NGO legislation, rising violence, coordinated legislative attacks on trans and intersex people’s rights, and emboldened anti-rights actors filling the space left by the retreat of US global leadership,” the report added.
“At the same time, LGBTQ organizations have not stood still,” reads the report. “They have continued to resist, adapt, and serve their communities under extraordinary pressure, often absorbing the costs of these funding shocks in ways that remain largely invisible.”
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