Here's how you n donate blood, if you're a gay man

Contents:

• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
• FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• NEW BLOOD DONATN RUL TO LOOSEN RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• HERE'S HOW YOU N DONATE BLOOD, IF YOU'RE A GAY MAN
• LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS

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

Dpe this urgent need for donatns, people who have sex wh gay or bisexual men are still facg rtrictns on their abily to give Food and Dg Admistratn bars people who have had sex wh gay or bisexual men om donatg blood for three months followg the most recent sexual ntact bee of fears of HIV the blood agency changed the ferral perd om 12 months to three months November 2020 as blood donatns fell and hospals faced cril shortag durg the first year of the COVID-19 advot, cludg the Human Rights Campaign, say the FDA is movg too slowly on removg the rtrictn, sayg that 's an outright ban on the abily of people, particularly gay and bisexual men, to donate blood. Rtrictns on blood donatns om gay and bisexual men, who are nsired to be at high risk for HIV or AIDS transmissn, date back to the and bisexual men unrgo dividual risk asssments stead of time-based bans untri around the world, recently cludg Greece and France, acrdg to ternatnal reports.

A person is tted durg the first gay men's blood drive, held at the Memorial Blood Center St.

The event was held to prott feral l that effectively ban gay men om donatg Bispg/Star Tribune via Getty Imag, FILEValant told ABC News a new statement that rearchers are halfway toward s goal of enrollg 2, 000 participants across eight ci: Washgton D. They enurage gay and bisexual men who are 18 to 39 years old to participate the FDA, a statement to ABC News, said that this study uld generate data that will help the agency terme if a donor's dividual risk asssment and qutnnaire would be jt as effective rcg the risk of HIV the blood supply as the time-based ferrals the FDA already has FDA also said do not have a specific timele for when the studi will be pleted but that is "mted to gatherg the scientific data that n support alternative donor ferral polici that mata a high level of blood safety.

GAY MEN STILL FACE HURDL TO DONATE BLOOD AMID NATNAL SHORTAGE

Take a look back at some of the gay sex dreams that have appeared on Te Blood, which, often feature Kwanten as the betiful season 6, Jason Stackhoe shared a sexy dream sequence after drkg the vae of the vampire-fairy Warlow, played by Rob Kazsky.

Earlier the show's n, Jason received a surprise bedfellow the form of Eddie, a middle-aged gay vampire. ’s Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, which crimalized “homosexual acts private between nsentg adults, ” two landmark Brish films centralizg the experienc of gay male characters celebrate signifint anniversari this year.

Part of s director’s valuable n of “social problem” pictur, Victim is a tt, clenched thriller which criqu the then-current law that ma gay men easy targets for blackmail. You and I are both gay male films crics, simultaneoly of highly varied cultural backgrounds and of unnny affy of taste. To my young, pre-g-out self, this was the most strikg film how sually and matter-of-factly prented a gay male relatnship.

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

Alex Ramon: Growg up and realizg my sexualy, I was attuned to disverg work focg on gay characters, and certa early and mid-Neti films, whether firmly mastream like Jonathan Demme’s Philalphia (1993) or fiantly not like Gregg Araki’s The Livg End (1992) (the latter taped om TV and watched secret), were important to me.

It would have been around that same perd of the mid-Neti that I first heard about Sunday Bloody Sunday, and for sure I was immediately trigued by the ia of this queer pneer—an early Seventi Brish film prentg gay and bisexual characters. In The Sat and the Artist, his book about Iris Murdoch’s fictn, Peter Conradi wr that “part of Murdoch’s unsung urage [is] that she als always wh homosexualy as an unremarkable, general feature of the human scene.

FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

The prentatn of Peter Fch’s Daniel as an telligent, profsnal, fully human protagonist, neher lghable nor piable, seems a world away om the gay reprentatns domatg Brish screens (and beyond) then, and enpsulated ic stereotyp like the ever-mcg Mr.

However, whereas Rsell’s film set my teenage gay self on fire wh the famo nu wrtlg sequence (I wish to go on rerd as sayg that I fd Oliver Reed and Alan Bat the sexit pairg the history of film), the Schlger film took me by surprise.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Still, many ways, Sunday Bloody Sunday was the film that not only helped shape my notn of what a gay life may have store for me—more profoundly, also formed my ia of adulthood self, as a state of nstant flux, imperfect cisns, and pursu of elive satisfactn. Sunday Bloody Sunday matter-of-factly prents a gay relatnship opposn to Brish opn of the time.

NEW BLOOD DONATN RUL TO LOOSEN RTRICTNS ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

In his jt-published book Shootg Midnight Cowboy [see review the Summer 2021 prt issue of Ceaste], which offers a lot of pellg sight to Schlger’s posn as a gay director, Glenn Frankel not that Midnight Cowboy out of the “brief but fertile terregnum between the eclipse of the old stud system and the rise of a new one, a time when origal, risk-takg movi flourished, old l were shattered and a new breed of film-makers took on adult them and characters that had never been seen mastream movi before.

It’s que clear that if hadn’t been for the Amy Awards and the box-office succs of Midnight Cowboy—sentially a gay-tted buddy movie explog the geo squalor of late-1960s Tim Square— Schlger wouldn’t have worked on Sunday wh the amount of eedom that he enjoyed. ’s Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, and the Gay Rights Movement, then movg to high gear post-Stonewall.

HERE'S HOW YOU N DONATE BLOOD, IF YOU'RE A GAY MAN

We n e back to the qutn of the film’s polics later, but how do you feel Sunday Bloody Sunday stands up next to other gay-themed films of that pivotal perd, such as Stairse (1969) that also attempts a prentatn of the domtic life of a male uple, or The Boys the Band (1970), which Schlger apparently hated “for s perpetuatn of self-loathg stereotyp, ” which he viewed as “the exceptn, not the le”? I happen to like The Boys the Band for s sheer boldns of immersg an dience an exclively gay world for two hours—a feat that Stairse attempted, but turned to an abrasive vville of Rex Harrison and Richard Burton thrashg about offensive posturg. Stairse and Sunday are light years apart treatg their gay characters.

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

On the other hand, n be argued that Schlger oms any real engagement wh the gay culture of his day Sunday—there are no clubs, no gay iends of Daniel, no gtur of fiance towards straight culture at all. How would the character of Daniel react to a flamboyant homosexual man if he met one? For sure, I n’t image Daniel out on a Gay Lib march, and viewers who see a certa kd of activism as a prerequise for gay cema are ed likely to be dissatisfied wh the picture.

” However, beyond the Amerin ronanc, for me ’s also very important to place Sunday Bloody Sunday a ntuum of gay Brish cema which, om Dearn’s Victim onward, often seemed far ahead of s U. ) There’s such a signifint, diverse history of gay work Bra om A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Leather Boys (1964) to Derek Jarman’s cema to My Betiful Lndrette (1985), Betiful Thg (1996), the llected work of Terence Davi, or Nigel Fch’s wonrful, sadly “lost” The Lost Language of Cran (1991) which Schlger himself appears a small but signifint role as a gay thor, adoptive parent and mentor figure: his stg there nstut a lovely, affectnate nod to a forebear. On one hand, the extraordary Bar Mzvah sequence, which pots to Daniel’s awe towards the majty of relign (and his possible Jewish guilt over beg gay), almost fetishiz the glory of tradn.

Yet, I dislike Raphael’s remark, which, at least the ntext of Far om the Maddg Crowd, seems to reveal a prejudice s implitn that a gay director would evably want to “sabotage” a potentially “happy” hetero unn.