Howard Brown Health, one of the nation’s leading LGBTQ+ healthcare providers, celebrates its 50th anniversary. For five decades, Howard Brown Health has stood at the forefront of LGBTQ+ healthcare—built through community and sustained by a relentless belief that everyone deserves affirming, high-quality care. Now serving over 40,000 patients a year across Chicago, Howard Brown Health enters its 50th year as both a legacy institution and a forward-facing health leader. Under the leadership of new CEO Dr. Travis Gayles, a nationally respected physician and health equity advocate, Howard Brown Health is charting a bold new chapter. Dr. Gayles brings deep public and private sector experience, a track record of combating health disparities, and a commitment to ensuring that affirming care becomes the standard, not the exception. To honor and preserve the organization’s rich and sometimes turbulent history, Howard Brown Health has compiled Liberating Healthcare, a 500-page book written by journalist Tracy Baim. Based on over a year of archival research and interviews, the book offers a look at the organization’s evolution—from its radical beginnings and AIDS-era activism to internal challenges, staff unionization, and today’s growth into a nationally recognized FQHC. Liberating Healthcare is now available to supporters via donation at www.donate.howardbrown.org. For more information, visit www.howardbrown.org.