Harriet Hancock LGBT Center
803-771-7713
The center offers a welcoming and safe space, a free lending library, meeting spaces for LGBT-supportive groups, and a directory of LGBT-friendly businesses, organizations, and counselors. They also host the Youth Outlaid Resource Guide on their site.
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SC Equality
803-256-6500
This is a statewide non-partisan coalition of local and state social, religious, and political LGBTq organizations and allies with a mission to secure civil and human rights for LGBTQ South Carolinians.
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AFFA Alliance for Full Acceptance
843-883-0343
AFFA is a social justice organization that is working for equality and acceptance for LGBTQ people. It offers small grants to help build or support nonprofit organizations that address the needs of LGBTQQ people. Another of their programs supports LGBTQ people who seek greater inclusion in spiritual organizations and communities. The website offers a resources page for local and other resources.
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We Are Family: A Safe Space for LGBTQI and Straight Ally Youth
843-637-3697
This organization offers a space space for the community's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) for youth ages 16-23. Youth can meet at the center for educational and social activities. They offer Kidspace, a SafeSpace group for adolescent youth ages 11-15 years old. We Are Family offers safe spaces and systems of support for trans individuals and raises funds for the financial care of transpeople in the state. WAF also offers training for adults who work with youth.
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