The Knights and Orchids Society Inc. TKO

The Knights and Orchids Society Inc. TKO TKO was founded in 2012. We are community people serving the communities that we represent.

The Knights & Orchids Society is a Black trans led nonprofit organization in Alabama that builds the power of TLGB+ Black people across the South by providing a spectrum of health and wellness services. | tkosociety.org/donate The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) envisions a future where Transgender, Q***r, Bis*xual, Le***an, and Gay Black people are empowered to live full and healthy lives free

from harm. Our mission is to build the power of LGBTQ+ Black people across the South by providing a spectrum of health and wellness services — from free HIV/STI testing and health care coordination to safe s*x kits, emergency food/utility assistance, and support groups. In 2017, TKO became the first and only AIDS Service Organization (A*O) and STD/STI clinic in the state of Alabama founded and led by Black Trans and LGBQ+ people. Our goal is to help more Black trans, same-gender-loving, and Black q***r folks access high-quality primary care and endocrinology services. TC Caldwell (they/them) is the Executive Director and Jennine Webb (she/her) is the Co-Founder and Deputy Director of TKO.

06/16/2026

Chat + Chew is your biweekly serving of community conversation with TKO and various guests. June 16 features scholar, creative , and waymaker Erin Michelle Washington! Alabama's own.

We’re live today! Food for thought is on the menu in our next Chat + Chew with creative and waymaker Erin Michelle Washi...
06/16/2026

We’re live today! Food for thought is on the menu in our next Chat + Chew with creative and waymaker Erin Michelle Washington!

Join us streaming live at noon on Facebook and Instagram!

Hungry for some real talk? It don’t get no realer than our next guest!Our next Chat + Chew features the creative, the sc...
06/08/2026

Hungry for some real talk? It don’t get no realer than our next guest!

Our next Chat + Chew features the creative, the scholar, the waymaker for so many, Erin Michelle Washngton! Join the conversation at 12 pm Tuesday, June 16, on Instagram & Facebook Live!

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Erin Michelle Washington is a Creative, Scholar, and Waymaker from Montgomery, AL. She attended Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and obtained her MFA in Acting from American Conservatory Theater. In 2009, Erin started Soul Productions, a company that crafts new approaches to music and theatre.

In 2016, Washington served as Interim Associate Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theatre where she was a producer and strategist for the Women’s Leadership Conference and Creator and Producer of the Bayview Arts Festival. In 2018 Washington joined the faculty of Spelman College teaching in the Theater + Performance Department.

She has since founded her second arts collective, SoulCenter, a content development space centering blk creatives 18-35. Washington’s work continues to deepen in the South, with the co-creation of a legacy-based organization with her sister, Erica Washington, known as the Clarke Street Fund, which centers art, food sovereignty, and tech on the Westside of Montgomery, Alabama.

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06/04/2026

SHOW UP. GIVE BACK. LOVE LOUDER.

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The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) builds the power of TLGB+ Black people across the South by providing a spectrum of health and wellness services.

An oasis for many, our outreach and community care have made a life-changing impact, particularly in the realm of public health.

We are a team of community people serving the communities that we come from and represent. And we're determined to keep our people safe.

With threats to our funding, we need your help to maintain our , prevention, treatment and care coordination services, among the slate of other offerings that affirm and assure Black TLGBQ+ people in Alabama every day.

✨DOANTE TODAY! ✨

https://www.giveoutday.org/organization/tkosociety

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Give OUT is the only national LGBTQ+ giving event in the U.S. Since 2013, this annual event has generated critical funds and increased visibility for hundreds of LGBTQ+-centered nonprofits across the country.

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06/02/2026

Join TKO in conversation with DW McCrary at 12 pm TODAY! And mark your calendars for Chat + Chew biweekly on Tuesdays on Facebook & Instagram Live!

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Today's Guest, Filmmaker DW McCrary:

"If you let the Getty Museum tell it, the photographic history of q***rness only happened in NYC, SF, and LA. ... But what about the q***rness of our aunts and uncles? Where our q***rness is met on the doorsteps of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Texas or Florida. Who gets to preserve q***r memory? And who gets erased in the process?”
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DW McCrary (b. 1993, Alabama) is a q***r Southern artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles working across documentary films, video art, and photography. Their film, Tending to the Soul, has screened at the Out at the Movies International Film Festival, Flourish Film Festival, and Working Films’ Revolution from North to South series, and has been presented by Labocine. Their forthcoming short Searching 4 Saturn was selected for the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival Pitch Forum. McCrary is co-founder and director of Unmoved Studios, a production studio supporting visionary q***r storytelling.

Learn more about their work at https://unmovedstudios.com/

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06/02/2026

Join TKO in conversation with DW McCrary at 12 pm TODAY! And mark your calendars for Chat + Chew biweekly on Tuesdays on Facebook & Instagram Live!

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Today's Guest, Filmmaker DW McCrary:

"If you let the Getty Museum tell it, the photographic history of q***rness only happened in NYC, SF, and LA. ... But what about the q***rness of our aunts and uncles? Where our q***rness is met on the doorsteps of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Texas or Florida. Who gets to preserve q***r memory? And who gets erased in the process?”

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Learn more about their work at https://unmovedstudios.com/

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Next Tuesday, we’re back at the lunch table — come get this food for thought!Join TKO in conversation with DW McCrary at...
05/29/2026

Next Tuesday, we’re back at the lunch table — come get this food for thought!

Join TKO in conversation with DW McCrary at 12 pm CDT. And mark your calendars for Chat + Chew biweekly on Tuesdays on Facebook & Instagram Live!

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DW McCrary (b. 1993, Alabama) is a q***r Southern artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles working across documentary films, video art, and photography. Their practice meditates on land, memory, and q***rness as both subject and methodology— examining tensions between the archive, place, and Black interiority. Their film, Tending to the Soul, has screened at the Out at the Movies International Film Festival, Flourish Film Festival, and Working Films’ Revolution from North to South series, and has been presented by Labocine. Their forthcoming short Searching 4 Saturn was selected for the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival Pitch Forum. McCrary is co-founder and director of Unmoved Studios, a production studio supporting visionary q***r storytelling.

Learn more about their work at https://unmovedstudios.com/

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We're live with TKO Youth Ambassadors in just 30 minutes!Have lunch with a side of community conversation in Chat + Chew...
05/05/2026

We're live with TKO Youth Ambassadors in just 30 minutes!

Have lunch with a side of community conversation in Chat + Chew, at 12 p.m. CDT biweekely on Tuesdays. Today, we'll hear the brilliance of the TKO Youth Ambassadors, including Wynter Brisker, Jonathan Gardner, Zuriel Hooks and DaQuon Allen.

Meet us on the livestream! 😉

Address

17 Broad Street
Selma, AL
36701

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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+13345932645

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