The Financial Situation of LGBT Organizations..read and see how you feel

 

Movement Advancement Project (MAP) presented a report detailing the income and expenditure of the 39 associations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and U.S. most important addition to comparing the data with the corresponding anti-gay groups .

One of the most important are percentages of those represented in the report, is the dramatic decline that occurred between 2008 and 2009.

While in 2008 the associations had entered 147 million euros(about 145.6 millions us$) in 2009 that number dropped to 20% with only 116.9 million euros.

The economic crisis has affected enough to have made donations to these organizations, and that while LGBT groups are supported mainly by citizens of "middle class" with some exceptions, the anti-gay groups have in their ranks with major corporations and billionaires on the American scene.

This means that, while in 2009 the LGBT associations had a budget of 120.1 million (118.7 Millions us $) spent homophobic organizations in the same period, 241.5 million euros (236.5 Million $us).

From Gay Universe we analyzed those numbers to place them in a corresponding percentage. The data show a worrying gap between groups seeking equality, and those seeking to limit it. The first, with 120.1 million euros, compared with homophobic associations have less than half the budget, with a figure of 50.3% less.

Despite these differences in favor of the groups that are against LGBT rights, associations of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual show higher returns in terms of expenditure and progress.

79% of LGBT budget is allocated to programs and services, from courses and conferences, to campaigns of visibility and control of diseases such as HIV.

Women represent 46% of members of LGBT groups, while transgender is about 6% of the total.

In addition, the percentage of U.S. adults LGBT who donated a minimum of 25 euros to organizations for equal less than 4%, even though he donates, often continue to do so, unlike large donations, from 725 euros or more, whose donors are declining and not get replaced, remains an important part of the budget reductions of these association

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