Cobb Residence Hall is the home of Pride Place , UNC’s first LGBTQ+ Residential Learning Community. Founded in 2016 , Pride Place was in part a response to the university’s denial of gender-neutral housing options three years earlier. While the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees unanimously approved gender-neutral housing in 2013, the state Board of Governors overturned the program before it began, and four UNC students who had planned to live in gender-neutral spaces were instead placed in alternative housing. The campaign for gender-neutral housing and the University’s subsequent pushback demonstrates that cisgender women are not the only group that has struggled to overcome barriers put in place by the administration.
For more on the gender-neutral housing decision, see articles from WUNC , Equality NC , and the Daily Tar Heel .
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