While Moscow’s mayor continues coming down on gay peopel, Russia’s health minister proved that progress still exists in the post-Soviet nation: “The Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development has repealed the ban on blood donations by homosexual people, it emerged last night. This move by the Russian authorities is a victory for the activists…who have fought the restrictions for more than two years.” [UK Gay News]
Bloody Good.
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CitizenGeek
This is certainly unexpected news. Just goes to show that banning gay blood donations really doesn’t make sense; the fact that a largely homophobic country even recognises this is proof of that.
Rob Moore
I imagine Russian health officials have enough trouble getting blood donations with blood alcohol levels low enough not to make recipients drunk without eliminating people based on where they dip their wicks.