ALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE

AFFA’s mission is to achieve, nurture, and defend equality and full acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people. To achieve our mission, we work to build partnerships with municipal and civic leaders, legislators, medical and mental health care providers, policy makers and business leaders to advocate for awareness, protections and equality for the LGBTQ community.

We know that education and advocacy go hand-in-hand. To accomplish our goal of full acceptance and equality, we need to educate and raise awareness about LGBTQ identity and the issues affecting our community. We do this work through conducting training and educational programming, meeting with organizational leaders and teams, and helping organizations conduct diversity, equity and inclusion audits of their own policies and programs, specific to LGBTQ identity. In addition we provide social and emotional programming for the Charleston LGBTQ+ community.

Our goal is for our community to THRIVE not just Survive.