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The Rainbow Floor LLC is a safe and inclusive space for LGBTQIA+ students. This LLC provides LGBTQIA+ students an opportunity to live and learn together. You’re sure to find support and lifelong friendships in this accepting community.

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Rainbow Floor

The Rainbow Floor LLC offers on-campus inclusive living for the LGBTQIA+ community. This LLC is an option for incoming and returning students. The Rainbow Floor LLC provides LGBTQIA+ students an opportunity to live and learn together. This environment is intentionally designed to be a safe, inclusive, and supportive experience for LGBTQIA+ students.

Living

This community finds home in a few different locations on campus.

Rainbow Floors

The Rainbow Floors are in the Karlgaard Towers residence hall. This community is on the Marilyn Karlgaard Tower seventh and eighth floor.

The Rainbow Floors have accessible all-gender single- and multi-stall restrooms and showers. For more privacy, an accessible, private all-gender restroom and shower are also available on each floor.

The social spaces offer vibrant, comfy lounging options and graphic design elements highlighting historical queer icons. They feature a chalk wall full of personalized, student-designed artwork and expression.

Rainbow Pod

There are two Rainbow Pods for gender-inclusive living on a smaller scale. With a dedicated lounge space and a smaller size wing, this community provides a close-knit feel in a traditional hall setting.

Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Floor

The Rainbow Floor-TGNC is for students who identify as trans and/or gender diverse and seek to live amongst and develop a safe, inclusive community with students of similar experience. This community is on the seventh floor of the Marilyn Karlgaard Tower.

Learning

Engaging in intersectional queer histories and narratives is a critical step in understanding one’s own identities, and the Rainbow Floor LLC offers students the opportunity to both live and learn together throughout the semester.

Students who wish to be a part of the full LLC experience should take either SOC101.201 bundled with IDIS187.210 OR PSYC100.201 bundled with IDIS187.211.

Programs and events

The Rainbow Floor LLC offers intersectional queer programming and community building. Students in the Rainbow Floor LLC enjoy community movie nights, dinners, and consistent engagement with the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center’s numerous events and programs.

Rainbow Floor LLC

How to Join

Choose your Living Learning Community preference on the housing application in the housing portal. The housing portal is all your housing information in one place.

Once you have indicated the Rainbow Floor LLC as your housing preference, you will have the option to choose which you’d like to join:

  • Rainbow Floor-TGNC (Trans + Gender Non-Conforming):  for students who identify as trans and/or gender diverse and seek to live amongst and develop a safe, inclusive community with students of similar experience.
  • Rainbow Floor-LGBTQIA+ General Floor: for the full spectrum of LGBTQIA+ students and allies who seek a safe, inclusive, and community-driven experience.

If you are in a roommate group, make sure your roommate(s) indicate the same LLC preferences on their housing application. Otherwise, you will not be placed in the LLC.

Students can choose roommates regardless of assigned sex, gender expression or identity, or sexual orientation. This means that students can live in the same room with a person of a different assigned sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Support

The Rainbow Floors LLC is supported by RAs who identify as LGBTQIA+, as well as a faculty sponsor.

Sponsors
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Director
Davies 220N
74 Roosevelt Avenue
Eau Claire, WI

Kallie is the Director of the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center at UW-Eau Claire. Feel free to stop by her office, give her a call, or send an e-mail if you are in need of support or resources! Her office is on the second floor of Davies in the Student Org & Leadership Complex. 

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Student Services Coordinator
Davies 229
74 Roosevelt Ave
Eau Claire, WI

Emily serves as the Student Services Coordinator for the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center. Their office is located in The Bridge on the second floor of Davies. If you ever have any questions related to our programs, events, and services, feel free to stop in their office!

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Towers South Residence Hall Director
Karlgaard Towers South 112
642 University Drive
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Living in the Karlgaard Towers as a resident of the Rainbow Floor has been a highlight of my housing and residence life experience here at UW-Eau Claire. I have made lifelong friendships. Building such a strong support is important for student success, and I can say with 99% certainty that I wouldn't be as successful as I am today without all the love and support I garnered from my time on the floor. Spending time in the floor lounge, working on homework or playing games with friends are probably some of my fondest memories from my first two years here.

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