LGBT Month

We offer support and increase self-advocacy and culturally competent services. The organization helps educate our local schools and the community on the importance of Gay Straight Alliances (GSA) in our schools.

Formed in 2008, Upstate Pride SC (UPSC) had a grassroots beginning. A year after UPSC was founded, members of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Spartanburg held the first ever March & Festival, drawing around 500 marchers in an impressive showing of support. Since then, the organization has continued promoting equality and acceptance. We empower people of all gender expressions and sexual identities in the Upstate of South Carolina by promoting acceptance through education, advocacy and networking.

We’re striving to create an Upstate where LGBT+ businesses and professionals thrive at every level, to give a voice to a long-ignored and marginalized community and
to be a resource to help the LGBT+ community thrive.

The mission of the Proud Mary Theatre Company is to present LGBTQ+ voices and stories in Spartanburg and the entire Upstate region through theatrical plays: compelling dramas, rib-tickling comedies, campy musicals, and local original works and avant-garde pieces that celebrate diversity and acceptance.

To improve the quality of life for all LGBTQ+ people in Upstate, South Carolina.

Gender Benders currently provides a range of advocacy, education and support services for TGNC individuals. This includes a annual multi-day retreat for TGNC adults (Camp GB), trans health resource development and provision. In addition we hold training and leadership development programs, HIV prevention, intervention programs and supportive online spaces.