The only U.S.-based organization focused exclusively on the economic power of LBQ+ women in the Global South.

With your resources, LesbianGlobal directs funding to LBQ+ women leaders, entrepreneurs, and community builders—so they can build sustainable livelihoods, protect their safety, and strengthen a resilient global LBQ+ movement.

Why Invest in LesbianGlobal

LesbianGlobal is the only US-based organization focused exclusively on unleashing the economic power of LBQ+ women in underdeveloped countries. We establish economic empowerment funds that provide seed funding to LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs who become part of a leadership community with mentoring and infrastructure support. The LBQ+ women leaders share their stories across platforms to inspire others and leverage the impact of their work.

LesbianGlobal is powering strategic investment, not charity.

Support Economic Empowerment for LBQ+ women

What Economic Empowerment Means for LBQ+ Women

Economic power creates wider change.
LBQ+ women who become entrepreneurs, workers, and community leaders gain visibility and influence that can challenge discrimination and criminalizing systems. In our partners’ work in Nigeria, women shared that economic independence could have helped them avoid forced marriages and abuse.

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Who We Fund

LesbianGlobal funds lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women in the Global South who are leading economic, social, and community-based initiatives.

This includes:

Cisgender and transgender women who identify as lesbians
LBQ+ women entrepreneurs, organizers, and social entrepreneurs (“actipreneurs”)
LBQ+ Women-led businesses, collectives, and grassroots initiatives
Community-rooted leaders building economic opportunity and resilience

We recognize that trans women who identify as lesbians face overlapping forms of economic exclusion, discrimination, and violence. Our funding approach is intentionally inclusive of their leadership, lived experience, and economic realities.

Why LBQ+ Women

Why Economic Empowerment

This video draws from a Human Rights Watch report co-developed with LesbianGlobal, documenting the realities LBQ+ women face across the Global South—and why economic empowerment is a critical part of reducing the risks, discrimaination and violence they face.

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Grantee Recipients

Every investment through LesbianGlobal supports initiatives that strengthen the economic power of LBQ+ women, with a clear focus on the Global South. We work with grantee partners to fund programs that expand access to income, skills, capital, and sustainable livelihoods.

Our funding is directed toward economic empowerment efforts that increase independence, safety, and long-term opportunity for LBQ+ women and their communities.