864Pride: Creates and sustains mental health and wellness programs in the LGBTQ+ community!

Queer Wellness Center: A building serving as an access point for community resources, health and wellness.

Upstate SC LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce: We provide access to comprehensive and queer-specific business and legal resources in a trustworthy environment free of hostility or fear.

PFLAG Greenville: Offers support for friends and family of LGBTQ+ community.

PFLAG Spartanburg: Offers support for friends and family of LGBTQ+ community.

PFLAG Anderson: Coming soon!

Upstate Pride: Empowers people of all gender expressions and sexual identities in the Upstate of South Carolina by promoting acceptance through education, advocacy and networking.

Uplift Outreach Center: Resource and youth center for homeless or at risk LGBTQ+ youth.

Southern Equality: Working to build a South where LGBTQ people are equal in every sphere of life. They provide resources of all kinds to LGBTQ people in South Carolina.

Gender Benders: Tri-County Gender Benders is a trans-centered support group focused on providing a community for LGBTQIA+ people in the area. They foster community through regular monthly meetings and other regular social events. For more information, please email at tricountygbs@gmail.com

Pridefest Collaborative: A community effort to better the overall health and well-being of our local LGBTQIA+ community living in and around the Upstate of South Carolina.

National Resources

The Trevor Project: Offers community-based programs and services to address the health, wellness, and access needs of LGBTQ+ people.

Trans Life Line: Trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. You can reach their hotline at 510-771-1417

ACLU: The ACLU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.

Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 3 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.