LBQ+ Women Social Entrepreneurs Deserve a Chance to Build the Future

What happens to the people who could help build a better future but never get the chance? That's the question behind our new video, "The LesbianGlobal Effect"—and for LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs across the Global South and East, the answer is: they keep building anyway, just with almost none of the capital they've earned the right to.

Watch the video here.

For many lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, being excluded is only the beginning. It follows them into whether they can get hired, rent an apartment, own land, or open a bank account—the unglamorous infrastructure any entrepreneur needs before they can build anything at all. With different layers on poverty, gender discrimination, and racism, you see LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs doing more with less than almost anyone in philanthropy is willing to acknowledge.

What the UN Report Means for LBQ+ Women Social Entrepreneurs

A new report from the UN's Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity names this directly: LBQ+ women face real economic and social barriers, and removing that discrimination isn't a side issue—it's a condition for them to participate in society at all. Human rights bodies talk about violence often. They talk about the economic exclusion facing LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs far less. This report did.

Here's the part that should bother you: almost none of the world's philanthropic dollars reach LBQ+ women in the Global South and East. Not because the ideas aren't there. Because the money isn't going where the ideas are. That gap is the entire reason LesbianGlobal exists, and it's exactly where our Economic Empowerment Fund invests—directly into LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs turning ideas into real, running businesses in their locales.

A vivid depiction of what exclusion feels like for LBQ+ women, especially in the Global South

Your Support Actually Buys—An investment in LBQ+ women social entrepreneurs whose leadership doesn't stop at their own business but strengthens the community around them. That's the actual and the biggest return value.

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