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Ireland's policy is “unnecessary, discriminatory and disproportionate.” We told you last week about the young man who gave up sex for a year in order to make a statement about the outdated blood-donation regulations currently aimed at gay men, but it looks like the problem reaches far beyond the U.S. Tomás Heneghan told The Irish Times that he’s been fighting “tooth and nail” for the right to give blood as a gay man in Ireland, and even filed a lawsuit to...

The Freedom To Donate campaign and UK artist Conor Collins launched the Awareness Week by displaying a portrait of Alan Turing made from gay men’s blood. The campaign stands for the right of gay men to donate blood, as currently the regulations in England, Wales and Scotland ban men who have sex with men to do so. According Dr. Christian Jessen there is no reason why gay men who want to donate blood must abstain from sex one year before donating:...