An LGBT dorm floor at UNLV.

Stonewall Suites, a gender-inclusive LGBTQ residence hall floor in South Complex opens for the first time this semester. on August 22, 2017. (R. Marsh Starks / UNLV Creative Services)

When resident assistant Sawyer Spackman heard at an October University of Montana conference about other schools that had LGBTQ floors in their residence halls, he pitched the idea to Residential Life Coordinator Andrew Lignelli. Could UNLV do something like that at South Complex?

Lignelli’s reaction was a quick “no.” There wasn’t much time to develop the idea and he figured the university would want to focus on the existing themed floors in the residence halls.