Here’s how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trump

In early 2024, Matthew Hart took a hard look at the upcoming elections around the world and worried that the outcomes did not look promising.

“What we knew was that the winds were not in our favor. The winds were not in our sail, and we saw all around the world a kind of moral panic,” said Hart, executive director of the Global Philanthropy Project, a network of funders for LGBTQ+ people internationally.

Rising authoritarianism and religiously motivated political movements were mixing into a “toxic blend” that regularly targets trans, intersex and gay people, they said in an interview with The Associated Press.

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