LIVE BRIEFING · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026

12:00 p.m. New York · 60 minutes on Zoom

Hi John,

A program manager at Kebaya, a trans women-led organization in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, put that question to our researchers. Funding cuts in 2025 took Kebaya’s staff from eleven to three, in a context where trans women are largely excluded from formal employment.

On September 10, Outright International publishes Breaking Point: The Urgent Need to Invest in Global LGBTIQ Movements, the largest global assessment to date of how the loss of funding in 2025, particularly the U.S. withdrawal of foreign assistance, has affected LGBTIQ movements, human rights, and development.

Join the researchers who ran the survey and the activists responding to the results for a one-hour briefing.

THE SCALE OF THE LOSS

203 of 229

organizations surveyed across 94 countries had lost funding since January 2025.

THE BRIEFING COVERS

• What the survey found across 94 countries
• Testimony from leaders of organizations documented in the report
• The five actions the report asks of funders
• Live Q&A

SPEAKERS

Four movement leaders whose organizations are documented in the report, joined by the Outright team behind the research.

George Hale

Director of Institutional Development
Promsex, Peru

Catherine Sealys

President
Raise Your Voice, Saint Lucia

Manisha Dhakal

Executive Director
Blue Diamond Society, Nepal

John Grace

Coordinator
Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium

Maria Sjödin

Executive Director
Outright International

Neela Ghoshal

Senior Director of Law, Policy, and Research
Outright International

Alberto de Belaunde

Director of Queer Legal Futures
Outright International

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026

12:00 p.m. New York · 5:00 p.m. Lisbon
6:00 p.m. Berlin · 7:00 p.m. Nairobi

60 minutes on Zoom, with live Q&A.

You will receive a calendar invite as soon as you register.

In solidarity,

The Outright International Team

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