The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation will hold a grand opening ceremony for its new Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18.
The center is at 526 N. Fourth Ave. The community is welcomed to the event.
The Thornhill Lopez Center will serve LGBTQ youths in Tucson through a variety of programs, direct services and community engagement.
The central program will be Eon, a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth to gather. There, youths can do homework, access art programs through a collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, take part in peer education opportunities and other programs.
Eon lounge hours will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and every third Saturday evening of the month.
The foundation raised $2 million through a capital campaign that began in early 2016 to purchase the building and renovate it for the center.
At Thursday’s event, Curtis Thornhill, whom the center is named after, is scheduled to speak, along with local government officials.
