Men who have sex wh men (MSM) are not eligible to donate blood or plasma Canada if they have had sex wh another man the last 3 months. This time-based ferment has rced sce 2013; om an ial lifetime ban, to five-years, one-year, and now three-months. Our prev rearch revealed that gay, bisexual, queer, and other MSM (GBM) supported makg blood donatn polici genr-ntral and behavur-based. In this analysis, we explored the willgns of Canadian GBM to donate plasma, even if they were not eligible to donate blood. We nducted -pth terviews wh 39 HIV-negative GBM Vanuver (n = 15), Toronto (n = 13), and Montreal (n = 11), reced om a large rponnt-driven samplg study lled Engage. Men received some basic rmatn on plasma donatn prr to answerg qutns. Transcripts were d NVivo followg ductive thematic analysis. Many GBM exprsed a general willgns to donate plasma if they beme eligible; like wh whole blood donatn, GBM nveyed a strong sire to help others need. However, this willgns was plited by the fact that most participants had limed knowledge of plasma donatn and were unsure of s medil importance. Participants’ perspectiv on a policy that enabled MSM to donate plasma varied, wh some viewg this change as a “steppg stone” to a reformed blood donatn policy and others regardg as sufficient and nstctg GBM as “send-class” donors. When discsg plasma, many men reflected on the legacy of blood donor policy-related discrimatn. Our data reveal a signifint plasma policy disjuncture—a gulf between the cril importance of plasma donatn om the perspective of Canada’s blood operators and patients and the feelgs of many GBM who unrstood this form of donatn as ls important. Plasma donor polici mt be nsired relatn to MSM blood donatn polici to unrstand how donor eligibily practic are ma meangful by GBM the ntext of historil disenanchisement. Succsful tablishment of a MSM plasma donor policy will require extensive tn, explic munitn of how this new policy ntribut to ntued/stepwise reform of blood donor polici, and nsirable renciliatn wh diverse GBM muni.
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- STEPPG STON OR SEND CLASS DONORS?: A QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN’S PERSPECTIV ON PLASMA DONATN POLICY CANADA
- STEPPG STON OR SEND CLASS DONORS?: A QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN’S PERSPECTIV ON PLASMA DONATN POLICY CANADA
STEPPG STON OR SEND CLASS DONORS?: A QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN’S PERSPECTIV ON PLASMA DONATN POLICY CANADA
"Treat wh digny": a qualative study of the experienc and remendatns of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) patients wh ncer. However, rearchers often e measur that foc on intifyg areas of of the most mon sexual orientatn sl, the Ksey Sle, measur sexualy on a ntuum om heterosexual to homosexual wh bisexual suated the middle (Ksey et al. A recent alternative to the Ksey Sle utiliz updated termology exclively heterosexual and exclively gay/lbian (Vrangalova and Sav-Williams 2012).
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STEPPG STON OR SEND CLASS DONORS?: A QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN’S PERSPECTIV ON PLASMA DONATN POLICY CANADA
In the 1920s and 1930s middle-class gay men would refer to themselv as queer to distguish themselv om fairi who were seen as feme and lackg stat as mascule (Chncey 1994). When I want to distguish myself om gay (gay beg nformist, strivg to be ‘normal’ while queer criqu normativy.
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