Here's how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trump
Activists from the LGBTQ community in Lebanon shout slogans and hold up a rainbow demanding rights during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon on June 27, 2020. Credit: AP/Hassan Ammar
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.
Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 22: Top guards, hockey champs and more On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Michael Sicoli talks about the top guards in boys basketball on Long Island, plus Jared Valluzzi on the Suffolk hockey finals, a look at Long Beach wrestler Dunia Sibomana-Rodriguez and the plays of the week.
