The gays know perfectly well why they can’t donate blood.
They do, but to varying degrees.
This whole younger generation is being told that the eighties were a period of “panic” over AIDS.
In the stories I’ve read in the past few days on this issue, all but one neglected to mention that people actually acquired AIDS through blood donations. They all spoke of “fears of HIV entering the blood supply” led to the ban on gay men donating. And they all spoke of how there was “panic” in the ‘80s over AIDS that caused homophobia.
With HIV being seen as more of a “chronic” disease these days, many young people might not even be aware that it was a most deadly disease for almost two decades, and that from just the reports of surviving homosexual men, most of the other homosexual men they knew who were sexually active before AIDS surfaced died from it.
From what I’ve seen, history has been rewritten on this.