The Food and Drug Administration, citing an “urgent need for blood,” has eased restrictions on gay men. A bit. Men who have had sex with other men within 12 months could not donate under the previous rule.
Now that widow has been shortened to 3 months. Restrictions on gay blood donors were initially put in place in 1983 in response to the AIDS crisis.
At that time, a lifetime ban was placed on any man who had ever had sex with another man. In 2015, the rule was replaced by the 12 moth window. R