What’s with this agitation to overturn the ban on homosexual blood donations??
There are others who are also banned from giving blood.
Anyone involved in prostitution, either selling or buying such services, is banned.
Anyone who spent a certain amount of time in Britain during the mad cow disease outbreak is banned.
Anyone who has injected street drugs is banned.
I think there are some other groups for which there is a blanket ban, similar to the ban on homosexuals donating.
The point is, these bans are in place NOT because blood banks are discriminating against homosexuals, but because they have come up with various health threat criteria which makes people in these groups high risk of spreading disease. Not just AIDS and HIV, but other illnesses as well.
But to the homosexuals, it’s all about them.
IIRC, anyone who spent more than six months in Western Europe is banned. I was stationed in Germany from 77-81, which prohibits me from donating blood.
The Red Cross center in Dallas lost 20% of their donors over this.
It’s all about “normalization”.
Although I have donated my O neg. blood several times in this country, I am now banned for life because I lived in Britain - thirty years ago.