If you’re “a male who has had sexual contact with another male, even once, since 1977,” the Department of Health and Human Resources doesn’t want your faggoty blood. In fact, they declined to overturn the gay blood ban back in 2010. But now Senator John Kerry and Representative Mike Quigley have gotten HHS to reconsider lifting the ban, but first HHS needs two or three years to figure out how to keep homos from infecting the entire nation’s blood supply with Super AIDS! So you can continue lying and breaking the law to help dying people (though you might get sued or turned away for seeming too faggy) or you can just stay at home and eat Ho-Hos.
TAKING IT SLOW
The U.S. Health Dept. Will Rethink Letting Homos Donate Blood… In 2 Or 3 Years
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Niki
Dont they test the blood? If so, why do they need to refuse blood from groups who have higher rates of AIDs? Are they going to start refusing blood from young black women as well? (since they have the largest rate of new infections)
Daniel Villarreal
@Niki: You may be interested in our old article Why Isn’t the FDA Banning Blood From Black Women?
jason
The US Health Dept is a bigoted and homophobic organization. It has one set of rules for men who identify as gay and another for men who identify as straight. If you’re gay and perfectly healthy, you’re banned. If you’re straight and a sleaze, you’re allowed.
Atlas
I frankly don’t give a shit if they lift the ban or not, I’ll never give blood to them, and as far as I’m concerned any shortages or lives lost will be blood on their hands, so to speak.
Without any good reason, you don’t want my blood. Fine, I’ll keep my dirty blood to myself.
damoisahomo
Fuck united blood services .. how many times do you have to tell them to quit calling since I am no longer allowed to give blood but because I had sex with a male? . . Apparently three times and a final cuss filled call. Oh well the little babies don’t need my O- . My blood is too valuable to share anyway. Yes I am bitter Cuz I never got my gold card! I donated as much as I could have, kept up my with my appointments, always did a double red, never took loads of snacks/drinks. Makes me wanna shove a needle in my arm.. but not of the blood donating kind.
Daez
I remember finding out about this law when participating in a blood drive at a job where I wasn’t out at that point. I find it interesting that crack whores sell plasma to help make ends meet then go turn tricks. Gay men, apparently, are more at risk than crack whores (according to them).