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SC Equality is celebrating the defeat of a “bathroom bill,” the Coastal Business Guild is having a lunch meeting, Affinity Health Center is gearing up for its “Dazzle and Denim” event, Alliance for Full Acceptance is hitting the links and a youth organization is expanding.

The Carolinas, as well as the U.S., are filled with scores of LGBTQ-focused support and family groups to provide a shoulder or welcoming arms for those in the community who seek the solace of safety.

Former North Carolinian, South Florida activist, religious cantorial leader and community volunteer Michael Robert Greenspan died last month after a long illness, Dining Out for Life will be held in three Carolinas locations and the ACLU of North Carolina is having a membership meeting to boost activism.

Equality North Carolina and SC Equality are searching for activists to join their causes for equality and civil rights, grant applications have been announced by the North Carolina Arts Council and a new major network show casting for a bisexual dating show.

SC Equality has stated that they are not retreating from fighting for equality for its state’s LGBTQ residents. It said, “We will not stand down. We will fight. Harder. Stronger!”

The award-winning online and print resource, POZ magazine — for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, has published “The POZ 100 List” for this year. The list celebrates people who work within the HIV/AIDS community.

Only around half of all Americans have ever been tested for HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a survey by The Washington Post and The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

The Carolinas has a variety of community organizations, resources and services for those living with HIV/AIDS or those seeking to get involved in HIV/AIDS prevention, education and advocacy.

Are the hills enlivened with musical sounds? They sure are throughout the Carolinas. And, what better way to have them be so than with ones brought forth by those from the LGBT and allied community.

South Carolina Equality has established its SCEnvoy donor program and We Are Family has called for more trans student protection.

South Carolina Black Gay Pride is being held from Aug. 18-21, Alliance for Full Acceptance is gearing up for August events and Upstate Pride has slated their September festival.

For decades, drag has been a staple of the LGBT community. Dating back to the era of activism of drag queens at The Stonewall Inn in New York, N.Y., to today’s visibility through Pride festivals and television shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” it’s never been as open and accepted as it is today.

South Carolina Equality hires a new staff member, Charleston Pride opens apps and Lowcountry AIDS Services and the Roper St. Francis Ryan White Wellness Center are teaming up for a run/walk fundraiser.

SC Equality felt relief when 11 anti-LGBT bills were defeated in the General Assembly and Charleston Pride is holding its Pride pageant.

June is heralded as the month that the LGBT rights movement began. Out from the Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, a band of courageous individuals fought back against the system to demand rights and respect from their community and neighbors.

The community mourns the loss of a champion, a masquerade is approaching and a bigoted “bathroom bill” fails.

For our 2016 guide, we’ve gathered LGBT-focused performances for our readers. Enjoy one of these below or go online and search for your favorite theatre, arts groups, dance company, musician, and more.

SC Equality is on the hunt for volunteers who will serve on one of two shifts as a gate person for the upcoming 34th Annual St. Pat’s in Five Points to be held on March 19.

Equality NC is gearing up for advocacy day, ACLU-NC is seeking new board members, RuPaul is headed to the Carolinas, family camping group opens up ad and scholarship season and HUD takes a look at bisexual individuals.

The 121st South Carolina General Assembly convened on Jan. 12 and there are seven bills that target the LGBT community in discriminatory fashion.