Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is introducing a resolution to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors March 31 calling upon the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration to lift its ban on men who have had sex with men in the past year from giving blood amid a projected blood supply shortage due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Mandelman introduced the resolution amid mounting calls for the FDA to change its policies. The first FDA prohibition on gay and bisexual men giving blood was a