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Gender and Sexuality Resource Center

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Welcome to the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center

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The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive campus for all students, while advocating for and celebrating those identities that have historically been and continue to be marginalized. Exploring privileges and oppressions is at the heart of our mission, and in so doing–and with a focus on intersectionality–we engage the campus community in ways that create room for understanding and empowerment.

The GSRC staff provides resources, support, and programming in collaboration with existing departments, advisory committees, organizations, and offices; we foster an inclusive campus environment through the development and sponsorship of intellectual, personal, and cultural programming.

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Award winning staff and interns

UW-Eau Claire has a 5-Star Premiere rating by Campus Pride. In 2023, Campus Pride partnered with Best Colleges and named UW-Eau Claire among the Top 25 schools in the nation and the top school in the state of Wisconsin (for a fourth consecutive year), joining an elite group of 15 schools nationwide to make both lists.

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Queer Prom

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Pronouns! Pronouns! Pronouns!

Blu, our campus mascot, offers pronoun buttons during The CookOUT, our annual welcome back event.

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JumpStart

Students in our Rainbow Floor Living Learning Community (LLC) enjoy Music in the Park while exploring downtown Eau Claire during JumpStart, our early move-in program.

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Celebrate with pride!

At UW-Eau Claire, our students represent a kaleidoscopic array of queerness, and we proudly celebrate wherever their identity journey takes them.

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Immerse yourself!

Each summer, we bring a cohort of students to San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival. During a two-week, immersive experience, we collectively screen hundreds of films, examine intersectional queerness in one of America's most beautiful cities (with a storied queer past), and attend San Francisco Pride. When we return, our students curate a 5-day queer film festival on campus–Q-Fest!

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Plantapalooza!

New students who've elected to participate in the Rainbow Floor Living Learning Community participate in JumpStart, our (FREE!) 3-day early move-in program. Each of the three days is packed with opportunities for incoming students to meet friends, explore resources, acclimate to campus before all students return–and have fun! Plantapalooza is a student favorite: choose your plant, your pot, and your paint!

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The Fire Ball

Each year, UW-Eau Claire hosts The Fire Ball, a drag ball extravaganza the likes of which you've never seen. Performers from around the United States come together for two nights of fierce entertainment. The Fire Ball audience–1500 strong over two days–supports Queer students at UW-Eau Claire through academic scholarships, emergency funds, and sponsorship of our Campus Harvest Food Pantry. (Pictured: King Phantom, a dynamic cosplay drag king from Los Angeles, stuns as el Día de los Muertos)

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National Coming Out Day

Though we celebrate our Queer students year round, National Coming Day is special. National Coming Out Day is a day to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and the process of coming out–wherever you are on your journey. We love you just as you are!

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