Future Focused Coaching and Wellness

Website: https://www.iamfuturefocused.com/
Address: Anderson, SC
Phone: (864) 775-1034
Email: shenita@iamfuturefocused.com
Description: Shenita Sanders provides both individual and group spiritual development, energy and sound therapy, and intuitive/spiritual coaching. Especially serves BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks.

Queer x BIPOC

Website: https://www.harriethancockcenter.org/programs/peer-support
Location: 1108 Woodrow St, Columbia, SC 29205
Contact: (803) 771-7713
Description: Safe, inclusive space for queer individuals of color to connect, share experiences, and find solidarity. Meets 2nd and 4th Fridays, 7–9 PM. No registration required.

The Ladies Room SC

Website: https://www.theladiesroomsc.org/home
Location: Upstate, SC
Contact: ebonisims14@gmail.com
Description: The first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center in Upstate SC serving primarily Black and Brown trans and nonbinary people. Offers skill programs, HRT and name change assistance, STD/STI/HIV services, addiction support, holistic healthcare, emergency housing, food assistance, and more.

Black Educated Lesbians

Website: http://blackeducatedlesbians.com
Contact: admin@blackeducatedlesbians.com
Description: Black Educated Lesbians (BEL) is a global nonprofit organization supporting Black queer women through mentorship, leadership development, economic empowerment, and community building. Founded in 2014, BEL provides tools for professional growth and social advocacy.

Charleston Black Pride

Website: https://www.charlestonblackpride.org/
Email: blackpridecharleston@gmail.com
Phone: (718) 807-8599
Description: Charleston Black Pride creates opportunities to educate, inspire, improve, and celebrate LGBTQIA people of color. Through events and forums, they foster visibility and safe spaces that showcase the diverse experiences within the community.

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.

FoodShare SC Order/Pickup Site
https://www.harriethancockcenter.org/foodshare

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.

SC Black Pride (SCBP)

Website: https://www.scblackpride.org/
Description: The mission of SCBP is to unify and celebrate the diversity, creativity, and beauty of South Carolina’s LGBTQ+ communities of color and their supporters, in order to empower and promote the human rights of all families and communities.

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.

Fireweed Collective

Website: https://fireweedcollective.org/
Email: administrator@fireweedcollective.org
Phone: N/A
Practice: Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. They help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Their work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system.
Sliding Scale Offered? Yes
Notable: Groups run for a month. They meet once a week online for 60 to 90 minutes. All support groups are sliding scale and are facilitated by members of Fireweed Collective.

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN)

Website: https://nqttcn.com/en/
Email: info@nqttcn.com
Phone: N/A
Practice: NQTTCN is a healing justice organization actively working to transform mental health for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC).
Notable: Through political education and field building, they work to create a future where health, mental health, and healing practitioners build power to intervene against the harm perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex while actively creating new liberatory ecosystems of care for our communities. They envision a world where our movement organizations are more resilient and strategic with the tools to navigate and collectively heal from violence, trauma, crisis, and uncertainty by organizing with politicized health and healing practitioners aligned with healing justice.