Blood. Gay?

Blood donations are more needed than ever, with over 50,000 blood drives canceled during the pandemic. Every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood, but gay and bisexual men still can’t donate ours without having to be celibates for at least three months. Many gay and bisexual men get banned from donating based on their sexuality due to a stigma that started in 1983, even though heterosexual people made up 23% of HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2019. A man who has sex with a single partner cannot donate blood in the United States – but a straight man, regardless of how many partners he has, can. These rules are not based on science. They’re based on the same homophobic hysteria that’s stigmatized us since the 80s.