The Lesbian Community Cancer Project (LCCP) in Chicago has partnered with Howard Brown Health Center to ensure that everyone in the LGBT community has access to free or sliding scale health services. Howard Brown offers free clinical breast exams, mammograms, and pap smears to all low-income, uninsured women and is one of twenty community health centers in Illinois that participates in an early screening program for breast and cervical cancer.

The Gildas Club in Chicago is now in collaboration with the Lesbian Community Cancer Project and a support group just for the LGBT community. Membership and participation in all activities is free and begins by calling (312) 464-9900. The LGBT Wellness Group and the LGBT Family and Friends Group meets every Thursday night from 6:00pm to 7:30pm at Gilda's Club Chicago located at 537 N. Wells Street.

A new painting of Tom Cruise will be sold as a limited edition print and poster to benefit Gilda's Club, an organization that provides free emotional, social and community support for people living with cancer. Gilda's Club online offers cancer resources and information on how to connect with others, as well as a Spanish-speaking version of the website for the Latino community.

Artist McKenzie, commissioned to create an original painting of Cruise for her celebrity series, calls the new work Intrepidity.

The release of the limited edition print and poster coincides with the premiere opening of Cruise's latest movie this week -- Mission Impossible 3. A portion of the profits from each of McKenzie's newest paintings have been donated to a specific charity. She said she chose Tom Cruise as the subject of her painting to benefit cancer charity because of his strength and temerity in the face of adversity. "It seems so fitting that part of the profits from the painting will go to a cancer charity where strength and fortitude seem often to be the difference between life and death." You can view more of McKenzie's art, and purchase her work, at McKenzie.