The Gays sued and lost the "Right" to donate blood in this country. Keeping the blood supply HIV free is "Heteronormative".
Most veterans who were stationed in southern Europe are banned from giving blood due to Mad Cow. I'm one of the Mad Cow carrying group.
Cancer "survivors" like me are excluded from donating blood products for life, but you don't hear me bitchin' and moanin.' The only people carrying on about being excluded are the alternate-lifestylers. Why should they receive breaks that you and I do not? A safe blood supply is the paramount object, not the ability of high-risk groups to donate blood.