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MISSION In order to yield positive effects upon multicultural student retention and victory, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs offers a myriad of Cultural Sustain Services, Diversity Education Initiatives, and Multicultural Programming. These programs, services, and initiatives focus on the progress of all students at the University of South Carolina. The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs’ objective is to help promote an accepting environment, and to assist in fostering an appreciation for each of our culturally diverse populations. Website | Facebook
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MISSION The Trans Love Fund is a program of We Are Family, an organization dedicated to providing resources, support and management development to LGBTQ+ youth. The Trans Love Fund is dedicated to helping the transgender community of South Carolina through providing microgrants to trans-identified individuals for medical, legal, and emergency living expenses. W

LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative

Historic Columbia, in Columbia, SC, in collaboration with the University of South Carolina Libraries, will launch the LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative on October 21, 2021 in conjunction with South Carolina Pride weekend festivities. Through oral histories, digital archives, virtual tours, and more, this initiative will exaggerate the diverse, complex past of a community that has, for far too long, been relegated to the margins of history. SC Humanities supported this project with a Major Grant.

The LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative is designed to ensure the preservation of the community’s memories, both collective and individual. They will partner with the South Caroliniana Library and the Department of Oral History at USC to record and transcribe 30 oral histories, which will be preserved by the Department of Oral History and made accessible to the public through a UofSC-based website. They will also work with the Department of Oral History to create further access to oral histories recorded more than a decade ago, and they will fully process and create accessible the 70+ box “South Carolina gay, homosexual woman, bisexual, transgender, and lgbtq+

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Since 2007, the Campus Pride Index has been the premier LGBTQ national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities to create safer, more inclusive campus communities.  The FREE online tool allows prospective students, families/parents and those interested in higher knowledge to search a database of LGBTQ-friendly campuses who have come out to improve the academic life and quality of campus life.

The Campus Pride Index sets the bar higher for LGBTQ-inclusive policies, programs and practices.  The index is owned and operated by Campus Pride, the leading national nonprofit management for student leaders and campus groups working to create safer, more LGBTQ-friendly learning environments at colleges and universities. The index is supported under the Campus Pride Q Explore Institute for Higher Teaching as well as benefits from strategic partnerships with professional organizations in higher education and related LGBTQ nonprofit organizations.

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Discrimination Against LGBT People in South Carolina

Executive Summary

Over 4.5% of American adults recognize as LGBT. Approximately 137,000 LGBT adults live in South Carolina. South Carolina does not include a statewide commandment that expressly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, departing LGBT people vulnerable to harassment and discrimination in the state.

This report summarizes evidence of discrimination against LGBT people in South Carolina, explains the current protections from sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the state, and estimates the administrative impact of adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s existing non-discrimination laws.

Key Findings

LGBT people in South Carolina report experiencing discrimination and harassment in employment, housing, public accommodations, and other settings.

  • An estimated 137,000 LGBT adults live in South Carolina. There are approximately 99,000 LGBT people aged 16 and older in South Carolina’s workforce.
  • Survey data indicate that LGBT people life discrimination in South Carolina. For example, the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey launch that 37% of transgender

    LGBTQ Columbia

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    LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative

    Historic Columbia, in a partnership with South Caroliniana Library and UofSC’s Department of Oral History, created the LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative.  

    This interactive project documents the often unseen and untold stories of the Queer community through the creation and dissemination of oral histories, historic site translation, and archival collections, including:

    • A website with more than 35 oral histories from Columbia’s LGBTQIA+ people, featuring the stories of participants covering all ages, races, sexual orientations and gender identities. 
    • The We’re Here! StoryMap, which identifies more than 250 events, organizations and businesses spread across more than 100 physical locations  
    • The fully processed South Carolina Queer , Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Collection at South Caroliniana Library, UofSC 

    Historic Columbia is committed to telling the stories of all Columbians and linking contemporary audiences with Columbia and Richland County’s diverse and complex past. In 2019, the organization partnered with the Queer Cola Oral History & Digital Archive Pr