LGBTQ Organizations
Use the filters below to find organizations that support and serve the LGBTQ community.
Category: Recreation
Lowcountry Pink Pistols
They are a shooting group that honors diversity and is open to all shooters. They help bring new shooters into the practice and provide a fun social environment for all our members. They work to build bridges between the shooting community and other communities, such as those based on alternative sexualities. They advocate the use of lawfully-owned, lawfully-concealed firearms for the self-defense of the sexual minority community.
They proudly represent the Low Country Areas of Charleston, Berkley, Dorchester, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper, and Beaufort Counties. (If you’re outside this area, you are still MORE THAN welcome to join.)
Camp Lightbulb
New York City or Los Angeles,
(323) 484-7993
info@camplightbulb.org
Camp Lightbulb is an LGBTQ+ summer camp for youth age 14 to 18. Since 2011 they have welcomed more than 2500 youth from across the US and around the world. Each trip is unique and incorporates their core principles of Art, Community, Fun, Learning, Outdoors, Service, and Wellness. Participants can expect a mix of fun, inspiration and celebration. Expect 25 to 35 participants per trip, which is the perfect number: large enough to make lots of friends, but small enough for plenty of individual attention. They offer financial assistance and payment plans on a Pay What You Can basis.
Lambert House
Since 1981 the Lambert House LGBTQ Youth Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated over 15,000 individual minors and young adults through over 500,000 service contacts. They provide in-person and online programs to more LGBTQ+ youth than any other organization in the Northwestern United States. Lambert House’s programs and services are evidence-based and informed by Positive Youth Development Theory and Minority Stress Theory. Their work spans eight categories: 1) Social Connection, Peer Support, Resilience, and Self-Esteem Building; 2) Family Success, Bullying Resistance and School Retention; 3) Mentoring; 4) Homeless Services including Meals, Clothing, Personal Hygiene Items, and LGBTQ-Competent Housing, Medical, and Mental Health Referrals; 5) HIV and STI Prevention Education, and Violence Prevention through Healthy Relationships Education; 6) Culture, Sports, and Outdoor Recreation; 7) Youth Leadership, Workplace Skills Development, and Academic Internships, and; 8) Systems Advocacy and Training for Professionals (from 30 countries to date).
Harriet Hancock Center
1108 Woodrow Street
Columbia, SC 29205
(803) 771-7713
Founded in 1993, HHC provides a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community. They host regular social groups, peer-support groups for different communities, Youth OUTLOUD for 6th-12th grade students, and special events. They also provide the Legal Name & Gender Marker Change Program (limited to SC residents).