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.

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.

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.

Takeover Charleston

Website: https://www.facebook.com/TAKEOVERCHS/
Phone: (843) 364-3774
Description: A fun and welcoming social group that hosts LGBTQ-friendly events approximately once a month throughout Charleston. Everyone is always welcome.

The Trevor Project

Website: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
Phone: (212) 695-8650
Description: Founded in 1998, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people under 25.
Note: 24/7 Crisis Line: (866) 488-7386 or Text START to 678678

Trans Lifeline

Website: https://www.translifeline.org/
Phone: Administrative Office: (510) 771-1417
Description: Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. Offerings include a peer support hotline, microgrants, and TGNC-specific resources.
Note: Trans Lifeline Hotline: (877) 565-8860

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.

Transgender Community of the Lowcountry

Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1252728468257151/#
Description: The Transgender Community of the Lowcountry is a support group for transgender people and their allies. This moderated group provides space for general discussion and education to strengthen the community.

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.

Victory Fund

Website: https://victoryfund.org/
Address: 1225 I (Eye) Street NW, Suite 525, Washington, DC, 20005
Phone: (202) 842-8679
Description: LGBTQ Victory Fund works to change the face and voice of America’s politics and achieve equality for LGBTQ Americans by increasing the number of openly LGBTQ officials at all levels of government.

We Are Family

Website: https://www.waf.org
Address: 1801 Reynolds Ave. Unit B, North Charleston, SC 29405
Email: info@waf.org
Phone: (843) 637-9379
Description: We Are Family is a Southern grassroots non-profit organization providing affirming spaces for LGBTQIA+ and ally youth up to the age of 24 through direct support, leadership development, and community engagement.

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

Name: World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Website: https://www.wpath.org/
Description: The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health. Their mission is to promote evidence-based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.

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.