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I gave blood right after 9-11 but have been banned from giving for a decade now, because I was stationed in Germany in the 1980’s (mad cow disease?).

So this “study” says faggies can give, but I can’t!!!??

Holy cr@p!

Yep, my family is not allowed to donate, because we were stationed in Germany. It’s too bad because my husband and daughter have an uncommon blood type, but it is what it is, rules are rules.

I spent more than 6 months in Europe after Jan. 1, 1980, so for a while I could not give blood (until they changed the rule to 5 years in Europe) but I know there are still restrictions on people who were stationed at army bases or lived in the UK...yet I don't know if they have found a single case of mad cow disease being transmitted by a blood transfusion.

Paul Gann of Proposition 13 fame died of AIDS because of a blood transfusion. Arthur Ashe is another famous victim.

One of my professors got cancer and was given maybe 5 years to live. He died after 2 years from hepatitis after a blood transfusion. This was in 1977 before the AIDS epidemic began to be noticed, but he was in a part of the country with a disproportionate number of gay men, so I've always wondered if the hepatitis came from a gay donor. AIDS isn't the only danger. The professor was 67 and still a productive scholar.