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.

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.

Charleston Pride

Website: https://www.charlestonpride.org/
Contact: info@charlestonpride.org
Description: Charleston Pride's mission is to promote LGBTQ visibility through education, heritage celebration, advocacy, and community-wide events like the Charleston Pride Parade and Festival.

COLAGE

Website: https://www.colage.org/
Contact: info@colage.org
Description: COLAGE unites people with LGBTQIA+ parents and caregivers into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

Website: https://www.lgbtcampus.org/
Contact: Not listed
Description: A member-based organization working toward the liberation of LGBTQ people in higher education. They support campus professionals in educating and advocating for diverse sexual orientations and gender identities using an intersectional and racial justice framework.

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.

Lowcountry Pride

Website: http://www.lowcountrypride.org
Contact: LCSCpride@gmail.com
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.

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
Email: info@glma.org
Phone: (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.

FoodShare SC Order/Pickup Site
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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.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) National Help Center

Website: https://lgbthotline.org/
Contact: (888) 843-4564
Description: The LGBT National Help Center, founded in 1996, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that provides vital peer-support, community connections, and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Utilizing a diverse group of LGBT volunteers, they operate three national hotlines, as well as private, volunteer one-to-one online chat, that help both youth and adults with coming-out issues, safer-sex information, school bullying, family concerns, relationship problems and a lot more.

LGBT National Talkline: (888) 843-4564
Free and confidential peer support, also providing information and local and national resources for callers of all ages.

LGBT National Youth Talkline: ​(800) 246-7743
Free and confidential peer support for the LGBTQ community ages 25 and younger.

LGBT National Senior Talkline: ​(888) 234-7243
Free and confidential peer support for the LGBTQ community ages 50 and above.

TALKLINE HOURS:
Mondays to Fridays from 2pm - 11pm ET
Saturdays from 12pm - 5pm ET