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- From: mccombj@alleg.edu (The Great Gazoo)
- Subject: Re: I Become a Marrow Donor
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204901.27986@pellns.alleg.edu>
- Sender: news@pellns.alleg.edu
- Organization: Allegheny College
- References: <Bxwxy9.IFq@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:49:01 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <Bxwxy9.IFq@world.std.com> entropy@world.std.com (The Entropic
- one) writes:
- > In article <Bxvq5w.F6q@phage.cshl.org> boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom
- Boutell) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov17.191136.5352@macc.wisc.edu> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- (JOHN HEIM ) writes:
- > >>Don't flatter yourself. The Red Cross doesn't care whether you're gay
- > >>or not. Every time you go into give blood the questions are
- different.
- > >>Now they asking if you've had multiple sex partners in the last
- > >>year - not caring whether they're same sex or not.
- > >
- > >Interesting. This spring a friend of mine who happens to be gay and
- > >whose sexual experience happens to be exactly zero was disqualified
- > >from donating blood on the basis of being gay.
- >
- > Perhaps he should ask if they mean
- >
- > 1) All gay people cannot be trusted.
- > 2) All gay people have risk for AIDS even without risky activites.
- >
- > When they answer sue for libel.
-
- This was odd to hear. I just gave blood about a month or so ago. The
- people working there did not ask my orientation, but rather, things like,
- "Have you had ever had sex with a man, have you ever had sex in exchange
- for drugs or money" (I'm sure I've screwed up the wording, but you get the
- idea) ... After honestly answering "no" to all of the above, I gave blood.
- Do they ask different questions in different places? Could they have
- misinterpreted the guy's response?
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- Joe McCombs... but you can call me <mccombj@alleg.edu>...
- "I'm still standing, after all this time...
- Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind..."
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