As a Gay Man, a Red Cross Study Allowed Me to Donate Blood for the First Time

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Gay and bisexual men are still rtricted om givg blood, a move that LGBTQ activists ll discrimatory.

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I'M A GAY MAN AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD DUE TO THE FDA BAN. I WAS PART OF THE RED CROSS STUDY THAT WILL HELP OVERTURN THAT.

A gay man wanted to donate blood ever sce high school but uldn't due to the FDA ban. The Amerin Red Cross fally gave him a chance. * gay donating blood reddit *

CMV: Gay people should be allowed to give blood.

NEW ATRALIAN BLOOD DONATN L FOR GAY MEN DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH, ADVOT SAY

New blood donatn l for gay men have e to effect on Sunday allowg them to give blood if they have been celibate for three months. * gay donating blood reddit *

How n they discrimate and be homophobic? Apparently gay mal are at high risk of STIs, oh sure bee all gay men sleep around and are fect, but no heterosexuals are all perfect. This law will have turned down so many good, willg blood donors, but they n't help bee they're gay.

The only difference between a gay man and a straight man is who they are attracted to, not their bodi, not their bra, not their speci and certaly not their blood.

Gays and straights are exactly the same blogilly and have equal health potential.

UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS

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Everyone is at equal risk of gettg an STI and if you aren't reful 's YOUR flt, not bee you're gay, not bee you're straight, bee you weren't ut. They die bee blood was not allowed to be given, that donor was a gay.

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

Discrimatg bee someone homosexual is absolutely disgtg. Change my view, gays should be allowed to give blood.

Instead of gays, the way 's put across don't seem right to be but ah well! Why nt gay people donate blood? Straight men or women and gay women n do thgs sexually volvg the butthole.

As a gay man if you want to donate blood you basilly have to practice abstence. TIL that homosexuals are not allowed to donate blood Canada, the Uned Stat, Germany, and many other untri. Donatg Blood As A Gay Man.

WHY ARE BLOOD BANKS STILL REFG GAY AND BI MEN’S BLOOD DONATNS?

(As a man) "Have you had Interurse wh another man the past 6 months" As a homosexual man a relatnship the answer to this qutn was. "YASSSSS" (jt kiddg) but serly I am gay and the tthful answer is y. Thkg that she didn't thk I was gay bee anytime I tell anyone gay they don't believe me bee "I don't act gay".

I walk back to my work and everyone my area asked if I donated and I said I uldn't bee I'm gay and they all asked why I didn't lie. In high school, I uldn't donate blood like the rt of my peers bee I'm gay. For years, I wanted to donate, but the FDA's ban on gay men donatg blood stood my way.

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC NOW ALLOWS SOME GAY, BISEXUAL MEN TO DONATE PLASMA CALGARY, LONDON, ONT.

But the study I signed up for required only six Red Cross-sponsored Advance study llected blood om 1, 600 gay and bisexual men across the US.

As a gay man, I was barred om donatg blood all my life until I signed up for the Advance study. I was first barred om donatg blood high schoolGrowg up a Los Angel school, I was fortably, proudly, and illtrly gay — my teenage md, at least. I didn't want to expla that gay blood was emed unworthy of donatn.

I wasn't angry that I was beg discrimated agast; I was angry bee I had blood to give — blood that I wanted to give — and wasn't able to bee of an illegimate policy rooted Reagan-era homophobia. This year, the FDA proposed a plan that would elimate the time lims and allow monogamo gay men to donate.

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