: About Me

Could you imagine? The pandemonium, the backlash, the accusations of discrimination? Yet, similar policies are in effect today, and objection or motion for change is all but invisble in today's public. In 1985, the FDA adopted a policy banning donations of blood from any man who has ever had sex with another man since 1977 (around the time AIDS ballooned into an epidemic). Their rationale was clear; the gay demographic had the highest concentrations of HIV, and thus such a blanket measure protected the blood supply. Simple. Questioning of the policy was sparse; the epidemic nature of AIDS ...