Monogamous Gay Men Can Give Blood

This may sound harsh. They didn't want my blood then (I have been monogamous for 33+ years with my boyfriend/now-husband). And they won't get it now.

The plan to ensure monogamy may be to make sure all of the male blood donors use a menstruation tracking app linked directly to the cops, lol. I would like to see the proposed definition of monogamy. That’s what high school female athletes have to do in Floriduh now ( required to use a tracking app). All jokes aside, it may be a way to make a play to interfere with the lives of gay people.

I haven’t been monogamous since I hit puberty.

Why are straight couples exempt?

The FDA allows men to avoid any of these questions anyway by saying they identify as female.

[quote]I would like to see the proposed definition of monogamy.

A DLer once wrote that he and his husband were monogamous because they only had sex with other people in the presence of each other.

I'm going to guess that will not the meet the FDA definition of monogamous.

Why would gay men suddenly wish to contribute to something they've been forbidden from doing. As if we were dirty, unlike breeders.

Here here, r1 and r7!

I feel the exact same way. Sorry, not sorry.

[quote]Why are straight couples exempt?

From what I’ve heard, they will be asking anyone and everyone who donates the same questions. Not just gays, but men and women regardless of their orientation.

Yeah. All 3 of them.

The FDA is having a harder time finding exclusively straight men these days. 😂

I always bottom. Does that make me monogamous?

What about "they's"?

This is rather stupid/pointless. Anyone can simply say they are in a monogamous relationship. And even if they truly currently are, that doesn't mean they weren't major whores in prior years.

I've known so many people gay, bi, and straight that regularly donate blood to fund their heroin addictions. Most of them are sharing needles and engaging in unsafe practices all along.

I thought people didn’t get paid for whole blood donation, only for plasma.

[quote] Anyone can simply say they are in a monogamous relationship.

Anyone can say they‘ve never had sex with a man, or that they haven’t done so in the last year.

How many gay men are "monogamous?" Very few. VERY few.

How would they ever be sure of any of this? Are they checking the blood or not?

[quote] Why would gay men suddenly wish to contribute to something they've been forbidden from doing. As if we were dirty, unlike breeders.

Gays need blood transfusions too, stupid.

So we have to be monogamous, but breeders don't?

And this is seen as an improvement??

I'm a leukemia survivor, which is a lifelong ban from blood donation, but it still bugs me...

If they can't determine whether a blood donation has HIV or AIDS or Hep C or anything else, then they have no business collecting it and distributing it. What is this- 1923?

[quote]How many gay men are "monogamous?" Very few. VERY few.

So, perhaps not many. But those of us in long-term relationships and--after discussing and dismissing the idea of "open" relationships--have decided as a couple to remain monogamous are.

I'm not judging. But it's meaningful to me that my relationship has remained solid for ⅓ of a century, and counting.

The blood is all tested for all these diseases anyway, so all of this is political and moot.

This has been my excuse not to give blood since I can remember.

Now I actually have to think ethically about it.

Not so fast, R23. There is a window between infection and the ability of tests to detect it. Blood donated during that window will test negative and get used.

I’m monogamous!

That’s only cause don’t nobody wanna fuck your fat ass, “George.”

They are desperate.....

Well apparently blood donations have dried up (as it were) over the last few years. COVID, maybe?

[quote]Monogamous Gay Men Can Give Blood

So, gay men still can't give blood?

oh pleez R30

half of DL is gay and celibate

Half is being generous. 10% are over 50 and have never had sexual contact with another person.

[quote]half of DL is gay and celibate

Even if 100% of DL were celibate and never had sex, that would have a neglible impact on the percentage of gay men in the US who could donate blood.

What, do you think that there are a million DLers running around?

We don't skew the numbers in a meaningful fashion when it comes to whoring around.

They should take blood from men on PrEP. That they could check. Do gay men donating have to provide proof of an HIV test result?