Can homosexuals donate blood?

Answer 1

If you are a lesbian, you can give blood. If you are a gay man, who has never had sex, you can give blood. If you are a gay man who has never had unprotected sex, you may not give blood. If you are a straight man, who has had unprotected sex with numerous sexual partners, you MAY give blood. Not really fair, is it? The Red Cross is re-examining their policies on this.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Can Homosexuals Give Blood

Answer 4

To give blood for transfusion to another person, you must be healthy, be at least 17 years old or 16 years old if allowed by state law, weigh at least 110 pounds, and not have donated blood in the last 8 weeks (56 days). "Healthy" means that you feel well and can perform normal activities. If you have a chronic condition such as diabetes or high blood pressure, "healthy" also means that you are being treated and the condition is under control.

they don't say you CAN NOT they say you should not if you have had sex with anyone since 1977. They consider you to be at risk for HIV if you did. Even if you test negative I assume.

Answer 5

Gay/bi men can give blood, they just need to lie on the questionnaire. And if you are a gay/bi man you ABSOLUTELY should lie on the MSM sex question. It has next to no scientific support, and the only reason it still exists is that it's a relic of an old policy put into place when HIV/AIDS testing was rare and the disease was a far greater problem than it is today (it was essentially an epidemic, especially among the gay community, but now is quite rare).

You should not respect the FDA's ban in this regard. If you are unsure as to whether or not it's actually warranted rather than simply being discriminatory, consider the following:

Here is a list of activities the FDA considers just as dangerous as MSM sex (and in fact until recently each of these were considered to be considerably LESS dangerous than MSM sex by the FDA):
-Having an "accidental needle stick"
-Having sex with someone you know has HIV/AIDS, or who has had a positive HIV/AIDS test
-Having sex with a prostitute
-Having sex with someone who does illegal injected drugs/steroids (i.e. someone engaged in unsafe needle use)
-Having sex with someone who has hepatitis
-Being treated for syphilis or gonorrhea

Yeah, having sex with someone you know has AIDS is treated as being just as dangerous as a man having sex with a man...

Also, for comparison, here are some incredibly risky sexual activities that a straight person can do literally the night before they donate and still not be invalidated by the questionnaire:
-Have anonymous sex with a different girl every night (doesn't matter where you pick them up so long as you aren't paying them for it)
-Participate in an orgy in which many men have unprotected sex with the same woman (though if you're the woman you won't be able to donate for a year if one of those men has had sex with another man within a year...if you're one of the men though you can donate no problem, and if the guy who had sex with a guy instead had sex with an AIDS patient then the woman would be free to donate the next day)
-Have sex with a gonorrhea and syphilis infected woman who just last night had sex with an AIDS patient, someone with hepatitis, and someone who was doing heroine with a dirty needle while he had sex with her.

But god forbid you get a ******* from a dude while wearing a condom, or have MSM sex with someone you've been in a fifty year monogamous relationship with...

tl;dr: the FDA MSM sex policy is a joke, and a sickeningly bad one. It doesn't deserve your respect, and they do not deserve your honesty with respect to sexual orientation. People actually need blood, and there is a shortage of donors. The people your blood can save is far more important than the blatantly prejudicial policies of the FDA. Don't let their incompetence stop you from doing your part if you are so inclined to donate.

Answer 6

Homosexual women can donate blood. Homosexual men who have not had any sex act with another man since 1977 can. There are many other restrictions based on both sexual and medical history, drug use, etc.


The DO a thorough quiz on sexual and medical history, and drug history each and every time you donate in United States.


In United States, *no one* is paid to donate blood (whole). They are, however, paid to donate blood plasma. The same restrictions apply to plasma donations, AFAIK.

Answer 7

Technically speaking, No. According to the American Red Cross, if you have had sex (unprotected or not) with a man since 1977 you are considered at risk for AIDS/ HIV and thereby not allowed to donate blood. Very silly. If you know you are clean, go, lie, donate. No one should be discriminated against for trying to do a good thing. The Red Cross should be ashamed of themselves for imposing such a rule.

Answer 8

It is forbidden for gays to donate blood in Malaysia because the government is homophobic and Islamic. They think that gays have AIDS because they have anal sex. But they are all homophobic bullshits. I'm gay, and I wanted to donate my blood, but after reading that gays can't donate blood, I just thought, " F it."

Answer 9

Homosexual women can give blood, yet one of the questions they ask is if you're a male have you ever had anal sex in the past so many years. So if you're not a sexually active gay male or you lie then you can.

Answer 10

Homosexual men who have never had sex with a man,
Homosexual women, and homosexual men who deny having sex with a man can.

HIV, AIDS
You should not give blood if you have AIDS or have ever had a positive HIV test, or if you have done something that puts you at risk for becoming infected with HIV.

You are at risk for getting infected if you:

have ever used needles to take drugs, steroids, or anything not prescribed by your doctor




are a male who has had sexual contact with another male, even once, since 1977





have ever taken money, drugs or other payment for sex since 1977
have had sexual contact in the past 12 months with anyone described above
received clotting factor concentrates for a bleeding disorder such as hemophilia
were born in, or lived in, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea,Gabon, Niger, or Nigeria, since 1977.
since 1977, received a blood transfusion or medical treatment with a blood product in any of these countries, or
had sex with anyone who, since 1977, was born in or lived in any of these countries. Learn more about HIV Group O, and the specific African countries where it is found.

Answer 11

Technically according to the Red Cross guidelines, no. Any man who has had sex with another man ever is not supposed to donate blood according to them.

But... it's not like they quiz you on it when you get there. Several of my gay male friends have donated with no problems.