Community is resource: Reimagining LGBTQI resourcing

LGBTQI movements are operating at a moment of heightened pressure. Criminalization, political backlash, and shrinking civic space are increasing risks and needs for communities, while external funding has been cut and has become increasingly fragile and unpredictable.

This report shifts the focus from external funding alone to the wider resourcing ecosystem — including and especially internal / local and diaspora resourcing — that play a critical role in sustaining LGBTQI movements. Drawing on interviews and case studies, it examines how resources flow:

• Within, from and through communities.
• Across diaspora networks.
• Through external funding.

The report shows that these resource flows do not operate in isolation: they interact in ways that either reinforce or undermine one another. The central finding is clear: LGBTQI movements are not simply waiting to be resourced. They are already mobilizing significant local and diaspora resources, often invisibly and under constraint. External funding remains crucial and it is at its most effective when it recognizes, centres and complements these existing alternative resourcing strategies.

Published by: GiveOut and GFCF

Published: February 2026

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