Gay Blood Donations
August 2, 2005 | 
News Reports
Currently, gay men are banned from donating blood in a number of countries, including the United States. These bans date back to the early years of the AIDS crisis - they were established in 1985 in the United Statees - but they are now widely considered to be discriminatory. The prime minister of Sweden has now called to end the ban in his country, and a man in Tasmania has raised the issue in Australia. A search in Google for gay donate blood turns up a whole lot of results about the bans and the efforts to stop them.
As gay women, should we donate blood? Do we support our nation’s blood banks, or do we stand beside gay men and boycott donating? It’s not an easy question.
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