Howard Brown Health Center
offers FREE anonymous rapid HIV testing every day. 
For a complete schedule of testing times and locations,
please click here.

Are you insured and looking for excellent primary care?
Check out Howard Brown's TRIAD Health Practice...

Howard Brown Health Center's
THInC Program Empowers Transgender Clients.
Click here to read all about it in the
July 25th Chicago Tribune!

Introducing THInC,
Howard Brown Health Center's
program to empower and support trans clients
who wish to access hormones.

Click here to learn more.
Click here to read Hormone FAQs. 

The HIV/STD Prevention Department of
Howard Brown Health Center
has released its first annual
epidemiologic profile of
sexually transmitted infections. 
Click here to read the report.

NEW! AGING AS WE ARE is proud to host its new,
weekly, free drop-in program designed
specifically with older adults in mind!

NEWS: Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts,
Cubs outfielder Tyler Colvin, and
Cubs play-by-play announcer Len Kasper
presented Ed Schwartz, Howard Brown's
Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations,
with a grant in support of the agency’s
Domestic Violence Program.

NEWS:  In April 2010, Howard Brown Health Center
offered the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
a comment on its proposed revision to the diagnosis
of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) that is included
in the 'Sexual and Gender Identities Disorders'
section of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

Click here to read the complete response.

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"If you want to see how to do it right,
    then come here."

--Illinois Governor Pat Quinn,
speaking at Howard Brown Health Center September 26, 2009

Howard Brown Health Center:
Celebrating 35 Years of Caring for the LGBT Community

Ongoing Recreational Events for LGBT Older Adults...

Click here for new groups & gatherings
in our program for LGBT Older Adults.

Donate today!

Click here for: Donations and Locations and Hours

Our three Brown Elephant locations are now open more hours to make shopping and donating easier and more accessible! 

Lakeview
Monday - Friday
11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Andersonville
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. daily

Oak Park
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. daily