By Melanie Nathan - December 21, 2025. This essay is a call to rethink how LGBTQI+ funding is allocated in times of crisis, and to ensure that survival, not visibility, is treated as the first obligation of global solidarity. It is a call for partnerships from foundations, funders, donors and LGBTQI+ organizations. Its an urgent matter of life or death. A global humanitarian collapse is underway and LGBTQI+ people are being abandoned first. As U.S. foreign assistance is cut a

When Protection Is Denied Before It Is Heard: Across the current U.S. asylum landscape, individuals fleeing persecution are increasingly being sent to countries with which they have no legal, social, or historical connection —places they have never lived, where they have no community, and where they cannot safely exist. For LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, this practice is especially dangerous. It exposes people whose identities are criminalized to governments that neither recognize t