27-Feb-2006Marc Shoffman An influential Irish youth organisation is calling on the country’s blood service to reverse its policy excluding male gay donors. The Yong Fine Gael conference in Co. Tipperary, Ireland, passed a motion opposing the Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s stance on banning sexually active homosexual men from donating blood. Group president Patrick O’Driscoll raised the question of why monogamous gay couples in long-term stable relationships were barred from donating blood, while heterosexuals who engaged in unsafe sex were...
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