Tom Gressette

Website: https://www.wglfirm.com/team/gressette
Practice: Walker Gressette & Linton, LLC
Address: 66 Hasell St. Charleston, SC 29401
Phone: (843) 727-2200
Email: Gressette@WGLFIRM.com
Notable: Tom Gressette is an experienced litigator who handles complex cases in federal and state courts around the country. He represents parties in all types of litigation ranging from business and contract disputes to personal injury and accident claims. Tom is sensitive to and experienced in addressing the unique issues that members of the LGBTQ can encounter when they are involved in legal matters. Tom practices with 5 other lawyers in the firm of Walker Gressette & Linton, LLC located downtown. Parking is available in the surface lot directly across the street from the office.

Will Kleindienst

Website: https://www.grsm.com/lawyers/w/william-h-kleindienst
Practice: Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Address: Charleston, South Carolina
Phone: (843) 714-2517
Email: wkleindienst@grsm.com
Notable: William H. Kleindienst is an attorney in the Charleston office of GRSM. He represents businesses in environmental & toxic tort, product liability, real estate, and commercial litigation. William advises clients in a wide variety of claims involving environmental legal matters. He has experience defending clients and expert witnesses in both state and federal court.

William advises real estate clients on industrial and commercial real estate transactions that have environmental contaminants, asbestos, and other environmental concerns (including Brownfields, Landfills, and CERCLA) and with the remediation surrounding these properties. He also works in the Business Transaction practice group advising clients on real estate, M&A, employment, risk, and all facets of corporate compliance.

Member of The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Website: https://www.eeoc.gov/
Phone: 1-800-669-4000 (General information about the laws EEOC enforces and filing a charge)
1-800-669-6820 (TTY for Deaf/Hard of Hearing callers only)
1-844-234-5122 (ASL Video Phone for Deaf/Hard of Hearing callers only)
Email: info@eeoc.gov
Description: The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. Most employers with at least 15 employees are covered by EEOC laws (20 employees in age discrimination cases). Most labor unions and employment agencies are also covered. The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.

Kennon Feaster-Eytchison

Website: https://kennon-feaster-eytchison.square.site/
Address: 630 Shannon Road, Marion, SC 29571
Phone: (208) 371-6860
Email: Kennon1969@gmail.com
Description: Kennon offers official South Carolina notary public services, and serves as an officiant for LGBTQ+ weddings. He serves the Marion and Florence, SC areas. His professional experience includes leading Diversity trainings for businesses and organizations.

Family Equality Council

Website: https://www.familyequality.org/
Contact: (646) 880-3005
Description: Family Equality’s mission is to advance legal and lived equality for LGBTQ families, and for those who wish to form them, through building community, changing hearts and minds, and driving policy change.

Modern Military Association of America

Website: https://modernmilitary.org/
Contact: info@modernmilitary.org | (202) 328-3244
Description: The Modern Military Association of America (MMAA) is the nation’s largest organization of LGBTQ service members, military spouses, veterans, their families, and allies. As a non-partisan, non-profit organization, MMAA is working to make a real difference in the lives of our modern military families through education, advocacy, and support. They also provide free, direct legal services for the LGBTQ and HIV+ military and veteran community.

National Black Justice Collective

Website: https://nbjc.org/
Contact: (202) 309-1552
Description: The National Black Justice Collective (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black LGBTQ/SGL people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. NBJC’s mission is to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ/SGL bias and stigma. As America’s leading national Black LGBTQ/SGL civil rights organization focused on federal public policy, NBJC has accepted the charge to lead Black families in strengthening the bonds and bridging the gaps between the movements for racial justice and LGBTQ/SGL equality.

National LGBTQ+ Bar Association

Website: https://lgbtbar.org/
Address: 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20036
Contact: info@lgbtqbar.org | (202) 637-7661
Description: The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges, legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated organizations promoting justice in and through the legal profession for the diverse LGBTQ+ community.

Transgender Awareness Alliance (TAA)

Website: https://www.taagg.org/
Email: info@taagg.org
Address: 1830 S Lake Drive, Lexington, SC 29073
Description: TAA exists to supply emergency assistance to the transgender community of South Carolina and partners with other organizations to create an affirming network of legal, health, and consumer resources. Programs include name and gender marker changes, social support groups, emergency housing, emergency funding, Community Health Workers, and a thrift store.

South Carolina Equality

Website: http://www.equalmeanseveryone.org/
Email: info@scequality.org
Phone: (803) 256-6500
Description: Since its founding in 2002, SC Equality has consistently worked to advance civil and human rights for LGBT South Carolinians and their families. Its goal is to improve the conditions of LGBT people in South Carolina through promoting tolerance, politically organizing LGBT people and allies, and changing discriminatory laws.

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Website: https://www.splcenter.org/
Phone: (334) 956-8200
Description: SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and seeking justice for vulnerable populations. Their advocacy work includes defending and advancing LGBTQ rights across the Deep South through litigation and education.

Transgender Law Center (TLC)

Website: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
Email: info@transgenderlawcenter.org
Phone: (510) 587-9696
Practice: Transgender Law Center
Description: TLC is the largest national trans-led organization working to ensure people can live safely and authentically. They use legal expertise and community-driven strategies to fight for transgender and gender-nonconforming liberation.
Note: Prison/detention support line: (510) 380-8229

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)

Website: http://www.nclrights.org/
Email: info@NCLRights.org
Phone: (415) 392-6257
Description: Since 1977, NCLR has worked to advance LGBTQ civil and human rights through litigation, public policy, and education. They pioneered projects like LGBTQ Immigration, Transgender Rights, Youth, and Elder Law. They also lead the Born Perfect campaign to end conversion therapy.

National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC)

Website: https://nbjc.org/
Phone: (202) 309-1552
Description: NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black LGBTQ/SGL people and people living with HIV/AIDS. They lead efforts to bridge racial justice and LGBTQ/SGL equality movements through advocacy and public policy.

Lambda Legal

Website: https://www.lambdalegal.org/
Phone: (404) 897-1880
Practice: Lambda Legal – Southern Regional Office
Description: Founded in 1973, Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization working to achieve full civil rights recognition for LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy. Services are provided free of charge.

Immigration Equality

Website: https://www.immigrationequality.org/
Phone: (917) 654-9696
Practice: Immigration Equality
Description: Immigration Equality is the nation’s leading LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrant rights organization. Through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and litigation, they support immigrants and families facing discrimination.
Note: If you are in detention, call (917) 654-9696 | Mon–Wed 9:30am–5:30pm, Thu 1:00–5:30pm. Calls from outside detention will not be accepted.

Margaret Phelan

Website: https://equalityactionfund.org/
Email: meg.phelan@equalityactionfund.org
Phone: (843) 437-5373
Practice: Equality Legal Action Fund
Description: Equality Legal Action Fund is a group of pro bono attorneys and advocates who are dedicated to fighting extremism and disinformation against educators, public officials, election officials, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Elliott Tait

Website: https://andrewslawfirm.com
Email: elliott@andrewslawfirm.com
Phone: (843) 881-8886
Practice: Andrews Law Firm LLC
Description: The attorneys at the Andrews Law Firm LLC provide the highest quality legal work in Family Court and personal injury matters. They are compassionate, experienced, and zealous advocates for the LGBTQ+ community, offering services for name and gender-marker changes, domestic violence protections, and divorce and custody issues. They also have a thriving personal injury practice, assisting with auto accidents, medical malpractice, slip-and-falls, and a variety of other cases.

Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA

Website: https://burnetteshutt.law/
Address: 912 Lady Street, Columbia, SC, 29201
Email: N/A
Phone: (803) 850-0912
Practice: Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
Description: Located in Columbia’s historic business district, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA’s attorneys are licensed to practice in all South Carolina courts and at all levels of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. The firm represents clients in a range of areas, including employment, environmental, education, family, and criminal law. They also handle employee benefits and ERISA matters, civil rights cases, privacy and data protection issues and government matters such as eminent domain, land use and zoning.

SC Victim Assistance Network

Website: https://www.scvan.org/
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Phone: (803) 750-1200
Practice: SC Victim Assistance Network (SCVAN)
Description: The SC Victim Assistance Network (SCVAN), a 501(c)(3) organization, is the “go to” agency as the voice of victims of crime and a resource for the providers who serve them in South Carolina. SCVAN fulfills three main objectives: 1) to ensure ALL crime victims receive access to and assistance from the criminal justice system; 2) to improve the quality of services provided to crime victims by victim advocates; and 3) to ensure the criminal justice system adequately serves crime victims.