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Gay & bi men can’t give blood. So why does Facebook keep asking them...
Blood donations are urgently needed in some areas and Facebook is using its service to help the Red Cross boost supply. In doing so, however, they are alienating gay and bisexual men who find the service’s choice to target them inappropriate.
Men who have sex with men, as well as many transgender people, are routinely barred from donating blood.
“On Facebook’s part, this seems tone deaf,” said Aaron Endre, a gay Facebook user interviewed by CNBC. Endre’s profile makes it clear...
A bisexual man was banned from donating blood. So he donated a kidney instead.
A bi man donated a kidney to protest the gay blood ban.
Currently the FDA bans any man who had sex with another man in the previous year from donating blood. The policy has been criticized by LGBTQ organizations for being based on homophobia.
Barton Lynch, 24, lives in Virginia and he regularly gave blood as a way to honor his father, who was diagnosed with cancer when Lynch was in college.
But he started dating men as well as women, which...
