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On the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month the UPC hosts a local pastor (Rev. Curtis Price, of the First Baptist Church) will be on location in the Center’s lobby 6–8 p.m., for open to conversation with anyone who would like to talk about religion. Price has long been an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and a partner with the UPC as well.

Anyone who wants to ask questions, work through feelings, laugh/cry/be angry on the subject of religion is welcome to sit with him, or gather his information to make an appointment for a more private conversation if they prefer.

Upcoming Dates: Thurs., Nov. 21; Mon., Dec. 5; and Thurs.; Dec. 19. , 1380 S. Main St.

The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire’s Prince Royale XLIV Kolton Riley and Princess Royale XLIV Sandi Panties From Hell present Snowball 2019: Christmas in New York. Each year, the RCGSE’s Prince and Princess Royale throw a Snowball Gala

to raise proceeds to benefit those in the community who are living with HIV/AIDS. All funds from this gala will go directly to recipients, which helps them in purchasing much needed medications, food, clothes, housing during the holidays.

Snowball 2019 commences on AIDS Awareness Day, Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South. Doors and dinner at 4 p.m., with the spectacular show at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25, available through artsaltlake.org.

On Thursday, Dec. 5, Westminster College’s B. W. Bastian Foundation Diversity Series presents “The ‘Born This Way’ Wars: Sexuality, Science and the Future of Equality” with Patrick Grzanka, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and women, gender and sexuality studies at The University of Tennessee.

In this lecture, he will discuss the social implications of scientists’ search for the biological origins of sexual orientation. An expert in intersectionality, Grzanka’s work broadly investigates the psychosocial consequences of complex structural inequalities at the nexus of race, gender and sexuality.

This free lecture will be held in the Bill and Vieve Gore Business School Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, at 7 p.m., followed by a book signing at 8:15 p.m.

Utah author and member of the LGBT community Rachel Anne Cox, will be at the Main Street Emporium, 66 S. Main St., Bountiful, for a reading and book signing of her debut dystopian novel A Light From The Ashes, on Saturday, Nov. 23, 4:30-6 p.m.

The novel is set in the future wasteland of Virginia where Sam, the son of revolutionaries, wants nothing more than to leave the violence of his past behind him, but the impending Third Revolution and the two women he loves may not let him. With his loyalties torn between his affection for Sophie and maintaining the tentative peace which has prevailed in the land, Sam must navigate the fine lines between peace and rebellion, love and hate, while trying to find his humanity in an inhumane world and within himself.

To learn more about the author, visit her on at instagr.am/rachel_anne_cox_writer/ or fb.me/rachelannecoxwriter/