https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/ shadowspar - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:40:38 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios shadowspar personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7043875/446148 https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/53777.html Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:40:38 GMT https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/53777.html <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 https://shadowspar.dreamwidth.org/53777.html queer Hysteric Blue - Reset Me surly public 0