Queer Wellness Center

Website: https://www.queerwellnesscenter.org/
Location: 30 Pointe Circle, Greenville, SC 29615
Contact: info@queerwellnesscenter.org | (864) 655-5193
Description: Provides a safe, affirming environment in Upstate SC with programs like BLOOM (LGBTQ+ competency training and free therapy for youth/families), LEAP (peer support for trans community), AFFIRM SC (professional training), and Project HEART (affirming medical care). Offers scholarships for medical visits and housing.

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.

Lowcountry in Transition

Website: https://www.charlestontranscommunity.org/
Location: Charleston, SC
Contact: lowcountryintransition@gmail.com
Description: A group by and for trans and nonbinary adults supporting each other through community building, support and social events, and resource sharing. Monthly meetings occur 1:00–2:30 PM on the 4th Saturday, with additional online and in-person events.

Lost-n-Found Youth

Website: https://www.lnfy.org/
Location: 2585 Chantilly Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, 30324
Contact: (678) 856-7824
Description: 24/7 Youth Support Hotline: 678.856.7824 extension 201

Lost-n-Found Youth Inc. is a transitional housing facility that is the primary solution for homeless LGBT youth (between 13 and 25 years) in the Atlanta, GA area. Providing emergency and transitional housing, emergency clothing and food for youth on the street, mental health evaluations and counseling, referrals to HIV/STD testing, health, and dental services, GED and education resources, assistance with lost birth certificates and driver's licenses, and job skills training. The Youth Drop-In Center provides a safe space, access to emergency clothing, meals, hygiene supplies, showers, laundry facility, and blankets.

Youth Drop-In Center Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM, Sunday 10 AM - 3 PM

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.

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.

Lowcountry Pride

Website: http://www.lowcountrypride.org
Contact: Not listed
Description: Lowcountry Pride is a 501(c)(3) serving the Lowcountry region of South Carolina. Their co-chair is a licensed therapist who runs support groups through Pride for parents of LGBTQ+ children and young adults in transition. They have a book club, monthly social events, and an annual Pride celebration. They also run educational panels within the community and offer various forms of support to LGBTQ+ individuals in the Lowcountry.

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.

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.

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.

PFLAG: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Website: https://pflag.org/
Address: Multiple SC Locations
Description: PFLAG’s mission is to build on a foundation of loving families united with LGBTQ people and allies who support one another. They aim to educate communities and advocate for LGBTQ equality. Local South Carolina chapters include Charleston, Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenville, Aiken, Rock Hill, and Pawleys Island. Contact information for each chapter is available on the website.

Pride Link

Website: https://pridelink.org/
Address: 25 Woods Lake Rd Suite 105, Greenville, SC, 29607
Email: info@pridelink.org
Phone: (864) 248-4040
Description: Pride Link offers health and wellness services, support spaces, and connections to critical resources for LGBTQ+ people.

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.

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.

SC Pride

Website: https://scpride.org/
Email: info@scpride.org
Phone: (803) 522-1190
Description: SC Pride is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of the LGBTQ+ community and its partners through educational events, entertainment, community outreach, and celebrations of diversity throughout the year. SC Pride produces Famously Hot SC Pride Festival, Get Lit Nighttime Parade & Concert, OutFest Columbia, and more. The Pride Festival, held in October each year on Main Street, Columbia, SC, is one of the largest outdoor festivals in the city and the largest LGBTQ+ event in the state.

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.

Southerners On New Ground (SONG)

Website: https://southernersonnewground.org/
Address: 1201 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Description: SONG builds, sustains, and connects a Southern base of LGBTQ people to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns. They focus on leadership development, intersectional analysis, and grassroots organizing.

Trans Love Fund

Website: https://waf.org/tlf
Address: 1801 Reynolds Ave. Unit B, North Charleston, SC 29405
Email: translovefund@gmail.com
Phone: (843) 637-9379
Description: A program of We Are Family, the Trans Love Fund is dedicated to supporting the trans community of South Carolina by providing microgrants to trans-identified individuals across the state.

T-Time Myrtle Beach

Website: https://www.facebook.com/t.time.mb/
Address: Myrtle Beach, SC
Email: support@t-timemyrtlebeach.org
Phone: (910) 377-5265
Description: T-Time Myrtle Beach is an open transgender support group and discussion forum in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Upstate Pride SC

Website: https://www.upstatepridesc.org/
Address: Upstate, SC
Description: Upstate Pride SC empowers people of all gender expressions and sexual identities in the Upstate of South Carolina by promoting acceptance through education, advocacy, and networking.