tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-15:446148 open sky / shooting star / nothing else but who we are shadowspar 2011-09-08T17:09:07Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-15:446148:53777 2011-09-08T16:40:38Z 2011-09-08T17:09:07Z Hysteric Blue - Reset Me surly public 0 <p> ...though they've <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14824310">moved to a 12-month deferral</a>. Which...yeah, whatever. Now celibate queer men can donate. Still, I suppose it is progress, after a fashion. There are rumours that a change might be in the works over here in Canada, too. I can only hope. </p> <p> Meanwhile, I love how the lifetime ban on donations for MSM is buried in an obscure submenu about a dozen clicks into the <a href="http://blood.ca/">Canadian Blood Services website</a>, and it never seems to be mentioned in their breathless press releases about the urgency of giving blood. I guess having the message "don't bother coming to the clinic, homo, 'cuz we'll throw your gay-ass blood right in the trash" splashed all over the place doesn't make for good PR. </p> <p> <strong>ETA</strong>: WTF, the UK still has a permanent ban on sex workers...so even if you quit the biz an eternity ago and test clean, the blood people are still there with a big scarlet letter for you. FFS. </p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=shadowspar&ditemid=53777" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments