remember that time we used a "gender neutral" model? all the people who got HIV and AIDs from the blood scandal remember.

My only thought is that of testing. Have they come up with a test accurate enough to show signs of Blood Contamination within a few days of exposure? If so then who gives a shit where the blood came from. If it can help save my life or someone else's life what do I or they care of the sexual orientation of the person who gave it. Kind of harkens back to the days of "Don't give me any Colored blood" or "... Negro Blood". If they can be assured the blood is not carrying a disease then really who gives a crap whom it came from.

What does “immediately after sex” have to with anything? The tainted blood scandal happened because the Canadian Red Cross bought blood and plasma from private for-profit suppliers in the shithole USA where they were allowed to collect blood and plasma from junkies and prison inmates and sell it for profit.

I’m actually indifferent to whether gays should be allowed to donate blood but let’s set the record straight the scandal had nothing to do with gays it was due to corporate greed and Americans for profit health system.

My only thought is that of testing. Have they come up with a test accurate enough to show signs of Blood Contamination within a few days of exposure? If so then who gives a shit where the blood came from. If it can help save my life or someone else's life what do I or they care of the sexual orientation of the person who gave it. Kind of harkens back to the days of "Don't give me any Colored blood" or "... Negro Blood". If they can be assured the blood is not carrying a disease then really who gives a crap whom it came from.

I don't think there is any tests that can detect a BBP right away.

What does “immediately after sex” have to with anything? The tainted blood scandal happened because the Canadian Red Cross bought blood and plasma from private for-profit suppliers in the shithole USA where they were allowed to collect blood and plasma from junkies and prison inmates and sell it for profit.

I’m actually indifferent to whether gays should be allowed to donate blood but let’s set the record straight the scandal had nothing to do with gays it was due to corporate greed and Americans for profit health system.

Dr. Francis “Bud” Henderson started HMA in the 1970s. As the company began to expand, he brought in a Little Rock banker named Leonard Dunn to run the firm. Dunn was a political ally and friend of the Clintons. He was appointed by Clinton to sit on the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and served as finance chair of Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Later that same year, Dunn purchased the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan (later to achieve great notoriety in the Whitewater Scandal) from Clinton’s business partner, James McDougal. Dunn later served as chief of staff to Arkansas’ Lt. Governor, Winthrop Rockefeller.

If you have sex with a partner that is infected with a BBP, the very method of how you have the sex makes you susceptible to also getting that BBP. Junkies are also not allowed to donate for this reason. Are we stigmatizing them too? Where did that American blood and plasma come from? Prisoners in high risk populations.