Gay Blood Ban

• Blood Services to recommend ending ban on donations from gay men

  Canadian Blood Services says it plans to submit its recommendation to end the gay blood ban to Health Canada within the next two weeks.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2021
  
• Canadian Blood Services to recommend end of blood donation ban on gay, bisexual men

  Canadian Blood Services is preparing to ask Health Canada to allow it to scrap questions about gender or sexuality, basing screening on higher-risk sexual behaviour instead.

  Canada

  Nov 16, 2021
  
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• Politicians could’ve worked ‘better’ on conversion therapy ban, says 1st openly gay Tory MP

  Canada introduced a lifetime ban for gay men in 1992 and in 2013 changed it so blood would be accepted from a man who abstained from sex with another man for at least five years.

  Canada

  Jul 4, 2021
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• Agency to request end to blood donation ban for men who have sex with men this year

  Canadian Blood Services' move would effectively end what advocates have called a “discriminatory” ban on gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men from donating blood.

  Health

  Jun 18, 2021
• Conservative MP pushes health minister to end limits on blood donations from gay men

  Eric Duncan, the first openly gay man to serve in the Tory caucus, pressed Patty Hajdu repeatedly, including a direct question on whether she'd accept a blood donation from him.

  Health

  Nov 27, 2020
• N.S. Student organization comes out against Trudeau’s ‘lip-service’ to LGBTQ community

  The Canadian Federation of Students says the Prime Minister is using the Pride Parade to gain political clout, rather than enacting policy changes that would benefit the community

  Politics

  Jul 19, 2017