This factsheet aims to summarize and compile information on funding focused on LGBTQI sex workers from the 2017?2018 Global Resources Report: Government and Philanthropic Support for LGBTI Communities published in May 2020 by Global Philanthropy Project (GPP). Available in English and Spanish.

ILGA World passed a resolution opposing all forms of criminalization and legal oppression of sex work. At the same time, the Trans Day of Remembrance reminded us that between January 2018 and September 2020, 60% of the 3,664 trans and gender diverse individuals murdered whose occupation is known were sex workers. In 2017-2018, the LGBTI sex worker human rights funding as a percentage of all LGBTI human rights funding was of less than 1%. “Reviewing data for 2017?2018, we see that in all regions and in a global analysis funding focused on LGBTI sex workers as a population has not matched the growth in overall LGBTI funding and in some regions has decreased over time.”