Blood donation service says coronavirus isn’t a good enough reason to relax...
Ireland’s blood donation service has said that the coronavirus pandemic “would not be a reason to review” its 12-month deferral policy for gay and bisexual men. During the AIDS-epidemic of the 1980s,...
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Pressure mounts for Donald Trump to take gay and bisexual blood donation...
As blood stocks continue to fall amid the pandemic, 20 attorneys general have joined calls for Trump to further ease restrictions on blood donation for gay and bisexual men. The attorneys general, who...
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Blood donation in Northern Ireland is being dragged kicking and screaming in...
Discriminatory blood donation rules for gay and bisexual men in Northern Ireland have been relaxed, finally bringing it into line with the rest of the UK. The previous rules required men who have sex...
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Gay and bisexual men barred from donating blood plasma in UK coronavirus trials
Gay and bisexual men in the UK are reportedly being excluded from a new blood plasma trial to help treat coronavirus. The potential COVID-19 treatment being trialled at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’...
View ArticleBrazil is the latest country to lift restrictions on gay and bisexual men...
The Supreme Court in Brazil has thrown out decades-old restrictions on gay and bisexual men giving blood in a decision hailed as a human-rights victory for LGBT+ people in the country. The court said...
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Gay man banned from giving blood in France takes case to European court
A gay man who has repeatedly been denied the chance to donate blood has taken his case to one of Europe’s top courts. Laurent Drelon filed a discrimination suit at the European Court of Human Rights on...
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Gay poet writes in his own blood to protest donation ban
Poet RJ Arkhipov uses his own blood as ink in protest at the UK’s “homophobic” blood donation policy. In an experiment with help from a trusted medical student friend, RJ Arkhipov drew blood to use in...
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Denmark announces gay men will be allowed to donate blood by 2019
Denmark is modernising its blood donation system to “better embrace gender equality” by allowing gay men to donate blood. The Copenhagen Post reported that despite activists campaigning for many years,...
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LGBT Game of Thrones fans excluded from blood donation contest
LGBT+ fans of HBO series Game of Thrones have been left disappointed by a new competition which encourages viewers to donate blood – but leaves out gay fans. As a part of the show’s marketing campaign...
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Plasma donation company sued for refusing transgender woman
A US company that collects plasma from donors is being sued after they turned away a transgender woman because of her gender identity. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights is suing the company for...
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Gay and bisexual men launch ‘illegal’ blood bank in protest at discriminatory...
An ‘illegal blood bank’ for gay and bisexual men is opening at a secret London location in protest at blood donation restrictions for men who have sex with men. The NHS has seen a 25 per cent drop in...
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An ‘illegal blood bank’ for queer men was launched in the UK in backlash...
Somewhere in a secret location in England’s capital city, an ‘illegal blood bank’ billed specifically for queer men was launched in a damning act of defiance against backwards blood donation laws. Men...
View ArticleAndy Warhol museum to be covered in queer blood for World AIDS Day
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pennsylvania will be covered in projected images of real queer blood for World AIDS Day, to protest the FDA’s discriminatory blood donation ban on men who have sex with men....
View ArticleNew blood donation rules for gay and bi men in the UK has not changed rates...
New blood donation rules that allow gay and bisexual men to give blood if they have abstained from sex for three months have not changed rates of infected blood. Just seven out of 2 million blood...
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Only four in ten new blood donors in England are men and everyone is making...
Amid a troubling scarcity of donors, four out of 10 new blood donors in England are men, leading LGBT+ activists to let out a strained sigh considering the gay men are still banned from donating....
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Gay man makes history in Northern Ireland as first to give blood since...
A 28-year-old has become the first gay man to donate blood in Northern Ireland since its discriminatory restrictions were relaxed. The controversial restrictions required men who have sex with men to...
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HIV doctor whose life-saving antibodies were refused because he is gay says...
A gay doctor who survived coronavirus has described his humiliation at being told his sexuality made him ineligible to donate his potentially lifesaving blood plasma. Joseph Heskin is a sexual health...
View ArticleGay doctor passionately rallies against the ‘old prejudice’ stopping men like...
A gay doctor from Australia has hit out at the “old prejudice” that still prevents gay and bisexual men from donating blood. In Australia – as is the case in many countries – gay and bisexual men must...
View ArticleEnding the lifetime ban on queer men donating blood made ‘no significant...
A study has revealed that when a lifetime ban on blood donation for queer men in the US was lifted, there was no “statistically significant” increase in HIV-positive blood. New research has revealed...
View ArticleGay MP boldly confronts health minister over failure to end queer blood ban:...
There were heated scenes in Canada’s parliament as the country’s first out gay Conservative MP Eric Duncan confronted the Liberal health minister on the gay and bisexual blood ban. Like many countries,...
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