Uplift Outreach Center

Website: https://upliftoutreachcenter.org/
Location: Spartanburg, SC
Contact: upliftoutreachcenter@gmail.com | (864) 381-7234
Description: Providing a safe space where youth are accepted and partnering with local organizations to provide LGBTQ+ specific resources to our community. They offer support, increase self-advocacy and culturally competent services to decrease suicide and suicidality. They promote tolerance and acceptance while welcoming and encouraging other community members and organizations to participate in their mission of supporting LGBTQ+ youth and their straight allies. Uplift Outreach Center is located behind Fernwood Baptist Church off of Greengate Lane. They are within walking distance of the SPARTA Hillcrest bus route. The Center is now open a few afternoons a week to youth up to age 23. Please call for current open hours.

Forge

Website: https://forge-forward.org/
Contact: (414) 559-2123
Description: Forge's work is trauma-informed, research based and empowerment-focused. They provide training & technical assistance for professionals who work with transgender individuals. Find resources & support for service providers and transgender and non-binary individuals, survivors of violence, family and friends. They foster connection & awareness building healthy relationships and interactions with the general public.

Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA)

Website: https://www.affa-sc.org/
Contact: info@affa-sc.org | (843) 883-0343
Address: 3265 N. Carolina Avenue Suite 202, North Charleston, SC 29405
Description: The Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) is a Charleston-based nonprofit working to achieve, nurture, and defend equality and full acceptance for LGBTQ+ people in South Carolina. AFFA builds partnerships and advocates for awareness, protections, and equality. AFFA Action is its 501(c)(4) sibling focused on legislative advocacy and political action.

Bisexual Resource Center

Website: http://biresource.org/
Contact: brc@biresource.org
Description: The Bisexual Resource Center provides support for the bisexual community and raises public awareness about bisexuality. Their vision is a world where love is celebrated regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.

Campaign for Southern Equality

Website: https://southernequality.org/
Contact: (828) 242-1559
Description: The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ people are equal in every part of life. Their work includes the Legal Equality Project, the Southern Equality Fund empowering LGBTQ leaders, and a Community Health Program offering services and resources for LGBTQ Southerners.

Campus Pride

Website: https://www.campuspride.org/
Contact: info@campuspride.org | (704) 277-6710
Description: Campus Pride serves LGBTQ and ally student leaders and campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs, and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. It exists to develop, support, and give “voice and action” in building future LGBTQ and ally student leaders.

CenterLink – The Community of LGBT Centers

Website: https://www.lgbtcenters.org/
Contact: (954) 765-6024
Description: CenterLink develops strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and builds a thriving center network that creates healthy, vibrant communities. Serving over 250 LGBTQ community centers, CenterLink assists newly forming community centers and helps strengthen existing LGBT centers through networking opportunities for center leaders, peer-based technical assistance and training, and a variety of capacity building services.

Equality Federation

Website: https://www.equalityfederation.org/
Contact: info@equalityfederation.org | (929) 373-3370
Description: Equality Federation is the movement builder and strategic partner to state-based organizations advocating for LGBTQ people. They work collaboratively on critical issues—such as workplace fairness, family recognition, and defeating anti-trans bathroom bans and HIV criminalization laws—while addressing racial equity, reproductive justice, and immigration.

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.

Gamma Mu Foundation

Website: https://gammamufoundation.org/
Contact: info@gammamufoundation.org
Description: Provides financial grants to organizations that serve clients and communities primarily in the rural and/or under-served United States. The Foundation makes available direct assistance through HIV/AIDS services, community services, or research and public education. The Foundation also awards financial support to members of the LGBT community who demonstrate financial need and the desire to pursue additional training through academic or vocational education.

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)

Website: https://glma.org/
Address: 1629 K St. NW Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Contact: info@glma.org | (833) 456-2202
Description: GLMA is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for LGBTQ and all sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, and equality for LGBTQ/SGM health professionals in their work and learning environments. To achieve this mission, GLMA utilizes the scientific expertise of its diverse multidisciplinary membership to inform and drive advocacy, education, and research.

GLSEN - Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network

Website: https://www.glsen.org/
Address: 244 Madison Ave. #108, New York, NY, 10016
Contact: info@glsen.org | (212) 727-0135 Ext. 6565
Description: Championing LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1990, GLSEN works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together they want to transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.

Gender Benders

Website: http://genderbenders.org/index.html
Location: South Carolina
Contact: info@genderbenders.org
Description: Gender Benders is a grassroots organization for transgender and gender diverse folks in the Southeastern US. They are based in Upstate, SC and have chapters and partner organizations in Hattiesburg, MS, Clemson, SC, and Hendersonville, NC. Gender Benders started as a group of 3 folks talking about what needs they had as trans and gender diverse people living in an area with no existing resources or support networks - and what they could realistically do to meet those needs with no money. Today, Gender Benders serves over 600 people from across the Southeast.

GLAAD

Website: https://www.glaad.org/
Description: GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBTQ people in the media. Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized.

Grand Strand Pride

Website: https://grandstrandpride.com/
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Contact: terry@grandstrandpride.com
Description: Grand Strand Pride is a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area Pride Festival, business guild, and provides educational programming.

GSA Network

Website: https://gsanetwork.org/
Address: 548 Market St. Suite 53568, San Francisco, CA, 94104
Contact: info@gsanetwork.org | (415) 552-4229
Description: GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans, and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.

Harriet Hancock LGBTQ Center

Website: http://harriethancockcenter.org/
Address: 1108 Woodrow Street, Columbia, SC, 29205
Contact: info@harriethancockcenter.org | (803) 771-7713
Description: The Harriet Hancock LGBT Center is a safe and inclusive home that supports, educates, and empowers the LGBT community, our allies, and our neighbors. They have a vision for South Carolina where all people are accepted and affirmed, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, and LGBT people are able to live happy and healthy lives. The Harriet Hancock LGBT Center works to realize this vision in South Carolina, starting in the Greater Columbia community and Midlands region.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

Website: https://www.hrc.org/
Contact: feedback@hrc.org | (202) 628-4160
Description: The Human Rights Campaign and its Foundation are the largest civil rights organizations in the U.S. working to achieve LGBTQ equality. HRC focuses on ending discrimination and realizing a world where LGBTQ people are embraced and treated equally in every aspect of life.

Keshet

Website: https://www.keshetonline.org/
Contact: (617) 524-9227
Description: Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and their families in Jewish life. The organization equips Jewish institutions with tools to build affirming communities, supports queer Jewish youth, and advances LGBTQ rights nationwide.

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.