alphacyberranger to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 20 days agoAustralia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world firstwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up1127cross-posted to: australia@aussie.zoneaustralia@aussie.zonelgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
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minus-square@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•20 days ago…why was that ban in effect to begin with? I can understand during the 80s, with the misunderstandings of AIDS. Basically by 1992, this shouldn’t have been a thing.
minus-square@renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglish17•20 days agoThat’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.
…why was that ban in effect to begin with? I can understand during the 80s, with the misunderstandings of AIDS.
Basically by 1992, this shouldn’t have been a thing.
That’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.