Gay, bisexual men n give blood for the first time after the FDA eased s donatn polici. Here’s how they feel.

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• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• GAY, BISEXUAL MEN N GIVE BLOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER THE FDA EASED S DONATN POLICI. HERE’S HOW THEY FEEL.
• GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN
• F.D.A. CONSIRG NEW APPROACH TO BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• WHY THE FDA IS EASG LIMS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN GIVG BLOOD
• DPE BLOOD SUPPLI CRILLY LOW, SOME GAY MEN STILL CANNOT DONATE PLASMA
• DISCRIMATN STILL KEEPS MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FROM DONATG BLOOD
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SHOULD ATRALIA END RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD?
• BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE
• U.K. ENDS RTRICTN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• FDA ALLOWS GAY MEN TO DONATE BLOOD
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

GAY, BISEXUAL MEN UTAH N GIVE BLOOD UNR PANY’S LOOSENED RTRICTNS

S., the Red Cross, along wh One Blood, Valant and partner LGBTQ+ muny health centers, are participatg a pilot study fund by the FDA select ci that uld potentially lead to chang for blood donor eligibily creria for gay and bisexual men.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

For the first time four s, gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood Utah.

Durg a prs nference Wednday afternoon, ARUP Blood Servic ma the announcement, makg the first donor center the state to accept donatns om the gay muny. “The are excg chang to the guil that have historilly impacted gay and bisexual men for four s.

GAY, BISEXUAL MEN N GIVE BLOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER THE FDA EASED S DONATN POLICI. HERE’S HOW THEY FEEL.

(Illtratn by Aisha Yoaf for Yahoo/Getty Imag)Jefey Marks, a 62-year-old wrer livg Ccnati has btersweet feelgs about the Food and Dg Admistratn’s recent cisn to ease rtrictns on queer men donatg a close iend fell ill many years ago, Marks had tried donatg blood at the iend's requt but he was turned away om performg the potentially life savg act bee he was gay, spe havg been a long-term monogamo relatnship wh a man for years.

GAY MEN NOW ABLE TO DONATE BLOOD UTAH AFTER S-LONG BAN

"The s-long FDA ban on queer men donatg, begun 1983, was direct rponse to the HIV/AIDS crisis, which disproportnately affected gay and bisexual men. Later, 2020, beme a three-month perd, due to an creased need for donatns the early days of, on May 11, the FDA enacted a plan to lift all rtrictns that directly target gay and bisexual men, choosg stead to asss all donors equally, regardls of their genr or sexual inty.

He has wanted to donate blood for years but never uld bee he is gay. Close this ntentKSTUKSTUJuly 19, 2023 at 8:17 AMGay men who were once unable to donate blood were able to participate blood driv for the very first time. 2, 2022The Food and Dg Admistratn is nsirg a more dividualized strategy for screeng gay and bisexual men for blood donatn amid an ongog natnal blood shortage, acrdg to an agency official briefed on the F.

F.D.A. CONSIRG NEW APPROACH TO BLOOD DONATN BY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

In 2015, the agency allowed gay and bisexual men to donate if they had not had sexual ntact wh other men for the prev perd was rced to three months after severe blood shortag durg the Covid-19 new plan would require potential donors to fill out a qutnnaire about recent sexual activy, among other risk factors.

”The new approach is meant to strike a balance between activists who want no rtrictns that sgle out gay and bisexual men and blood banks that want to elimate the risk of a recipient acquirg H. -fund study signed to asss the safety of replacg the current three-month wag perd wh a more dividualized rearchers, who enrolled about 1, 600 gay and bisexual men eight metropolan areas, are hopg to intify a set of screeng qutns that n differentiate men who are more likely to have recently acquired H. Consirs Shift In Blood Donor Policy For Gay or Bisexual Men.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gay and bisexual men monogamo relatnships n donate blood the U. Eas blood donatn lims for gay men due to shortage.

WHY THE FDA IS EASG LIMS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN GIVG BLOOD

Gay rights groups have long opposed blanket rtrictns on who n give blood, sayg they discrimate. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

DPE BLOOD SUPPLI CRILLY LOW, SOME GAY MEN STILL CANNOT DONATE PLASMA

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Food and Dg Admistratn l at the time, gay and bisexual men were barred om donatg blood—a policy that had been effect sce the 1980s.

”For years, activists and scientists have been advotg for revised blood donatn l lked to HIV transmissn ncerns and on May 11 the FDA announced that is easg the 2015, the feral agency updated s policy to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, but only if they hadn’t had sex wh another man for at least a year.

In the early 1980s, gay and bisexual men were one of the highly affected groups durg the HIV/AIDS epimic. But along wh the limatns, homophobia also fueled the bate on who uld or uldn’t donate the years, the lag time between exposure to the vis and tts tectg s prence the bloodstream cled. Dpe the checks, the FDA, 2015, cid to allow blood donatn om only those gay and bisexual men who had abstaed om sex wh men for one year.

DISCRIMATN STILL KEEPS MANY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FROM DONATG BLOOD

Also, “not everyone, jt bee of their inty as a gay man or bisexual, is engagg sexual activy that pos a risk of HIV, ” he says.

The le, for stance, don’t exclu monogamo gay men, those who practice safe sex, or tt negative for even though the feral agency cut the no-sex-wh-another-man wdow to three months 2020—as the natn experienced a severe blood shortage crisis—’s still rtrictive, says Keh Sigel, an fect diseas specialist at the Ihn School of Medice at Mount Sai, New York Cy. In April 2020, more than 500 medil and health profsnals sent an open letter to the FDA statg that even the new prohibn perd did not go far enough reversg the unscientific 2021, the agency fund a study to terme if a qutnnaire uld be ed as an alternative to terme dividual risks of HIV among gay and bisexual men wantg to donate blood as opposed to a blanket time-based policy.

ADVANCE studyFor the so-lled ADVANCE study, nearly 2, 000 gay and bisexual men eight ci volunteered to donate blood sampl that were screened for HIV and answered qutns about their sexual activy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Dpe Blood Suppli Crilly Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma Men who've had COVID-19 and have sex wh other men mt wa three months before donatg potentially life-savg plasma. Dpe Blood Suppli Crilly Low, Some Gay Men Still Cannot Donate Plasma. Many argue that a feral policy preventg many gay men om donatg blood is driven by stigma rather than science.

And yet simply bee I am gay, I n't do anythg wh . But that's not possible for gay men. The lifetime ban was shortened to a year of celibacy 2015 and then rced to three months last April, which is still a problem acrdg to California State Senator Stt WIENER: The FDA's blood donatn ban is 100% driven by fear, ignorance and outdated stereotyp about gay and bisexual men.

SHOULD ATRALIA END RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD?

Anybody who is not monogamo, gay or straight, would have to wa.

BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE

MCCLURG: He says science should drive health policy, not homophobia.

“When my iends asked why I was leavg so abptly I had to expla that I’m gay and sexually active, and I n’t donate bee they’re worried about HIV, ” says Mart, who had yet to e out to all of his new iends. Sce then, the Food and Dg Admistratn has revised s policy on blood donatn by gay and bisexual men multiple tim. Advot say that if the policy nyg gay and bisexual men the abily to give blood jt bee they have been sexually active was elimated, 345, 400 to 615, 300 pts of blood uld potentially be add to the system each year, cg a 2014 analysis by the Williams Instute, a public policy rearch center at UCLA.

U.K. ENDS RTRICTN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

The lifetime ban on gay men givg blood was imposed 1985, the year actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS-related illns.

FDA ALLOWS GAY MEN TO DONATE BLOOD

While Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), an HIV/AIDS service anizatn, is enuraged by the FDA’s chang to protol around blood donatn, Jason Cianctto, s vice print of munitns and policy, has voiced ncerns around the FDA’s remendatns beg “nonbdg, ” as well as s e of outdated data to asss the HIV risk wh regards to men who have sex wh other men.

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LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

LGBTQI+ groups have lled for Atralia to change s policy on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men the light of mov other untri to relax July the UK removed s three-month abstence perd for gay and bisexual men donatg blood, and moved to an dividual risk asssment for all donors, regardls of genr or sexual partner. A number of other natns, cludg the Netherlands, Israel, Argenta, France and Germany, have abolished their ban on blood donatns for particular groups sce the panmic began, or plan to do so unr Atralian policy, gay men or trans women who have sex wh men are unable to donate blood if their sexual abstence perd is ls than three months.