Rainbow Floors

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.

• Oak Ridge Hall first floor, for incoming students.
• The Suites first floor, available to returning students.

Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Floor

The Rainbow Floor-TGNC is for students who identify as trans and/or gender diverse, and for those who intend to be their roommates, as well as for those who seek to live in a shared space that is not designated by the gender binary. The purpose of the space is to 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 IDIS187.216 or ENGL122.201 bundled with IDIS187.210 or 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.

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.