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Harriet Daniels was born on September 25, 1936 in Colombia, South Carolina. She married straight out of high school and took cosmetology classes and worked as a cosmetologist for a year in order to help put her husband through school. She was admitted into the University of South Carolina with her son, Greg. When Greg came out to her in 1981, she wanted to make a better and more accepting world for her son. She began a local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and hosted meetings in her own home. In 1984, PFLAG meetings consisted of information Hancock had got from the national conference in Denver concerning AIDS. Many members and allies admitted to unfair treatment in hospitals because of their sexual orientation. In 1985, she helped create the Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services (PALSS) alongside Bill Edens, a man who had been diagnosed with HIV. She was admitted into the University of South Carolina's law program after completing her undergraduate program. Hancock organized the first Pride March in 1990. After graduation, she became an attorney who fought for LGBT rights. In 1991, she was awarded the Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award. A community space bought in 1994 by the SC Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement was renamed Harriet Hancock in honor of her work in 2005. Hancock is now called the "Mother of SC Pride."