The copy on the front of the shirt, “This Shirt Is Printed With the Blood of Gay Men,” is arresting, to say the least. On the back, longer copy explains the policy change the shirt is intended to help bring about.
“The blood of men who have had sex with men is deemed ‘too risky’ to donate, not by science, but by the FDA, backed by a government unwilling to repeal outdated thinking,” the shirt says. “Sexuality is not a risk-factor. Stigma is the only real risk.”
“All blood is screened, and everyone can be at risk for HIV,” Meacher says. “The more we pathologize HIV by attaching it to certain communities, we are perpetuating stereotypes that ultimately harm us all. Everyone should be thinking about HIV prevention and screening methods should reflect that by basing criteria on behaviors, not orientation or identity. Banning a specific group from performing a civic duty is stigmatizing and when based on shoddy science, is clearly discriminatory.”
“When the blood arrived in the studio, it suddenly became very real. It wasn’t gay blood, it was just blood, and the ink formula would have been the same whatever the sexuality of its donor,” Semple says. “But I couldn’t help tuning into the sorrow that gay men must feel from being excluded from giving blood. It’s something that others take totally for granted. It’s bizarre that in this day and age that a glaring prejudice like this still exists.”
Semple used the blood donations from Mother employees to create a custom screen-printing ink, which was then used in the minimalist shirt design. The project was one with a great deal of personal resonance for the employees who provided their own blood for the ink.
>The blood of men who have had sex with men is deemed ‘too risky’ to donate, not by science >not by science I'm extremely tolerant of gays by Jow Forums standards and I still think this is retarded. HIV transmission rates are orders of magnitude higher through anal sex. This is an easily verifiable scientific fact.
Alexander Jackson
All my gay friends are on Truvada. No, I don't support them donating.
Jacob Flores
Don't fags have like a 70% STD rate? Why the fuck would anyone want to taint the blood supply with their AIDS?
Not taking into account the mentally insane ones who will deliberately try to infect 10 year old accident victims with their gay cancer blood so they can jerk off to the thought of it later
Nolan Murphy
If you're not screening blood for diseases well then I'm glad I've never had a transfusion. And if it is screened why does it matter?
Bentley Reed
No. Keep your fag blood away from people.
Julian Cox
They should be gassed. Killed. Terminated.
Easton Cook
>Do you support letting gay men donate blood? No.
Jonathan Ward
Thinks all the blood can be screened, its not. That's why you have a questionare at the start, gays arent the only ones who cant donate
Si you're staying celibate for 5 years in order to give blood?
Do you know how utterly retarded that is? You are much more likely to have been infected last week than anyone else and a 5 year period won't change that.
Benjamin Robinson
Even not accounting for any celibacy there have only been two cases (that I could find) of a gay person transmitting HIV via infected blood from the last twenty years in a developed nation.
Additionally there are countries where gay people are allowed to donate blood, and we don't see huge rates of HIV transmission by blood products there either.
Eli Morales
Communists attacked our capital on this date last year. It's flag day.
Fuck you, agent deviant.
Jaxon Baker
Why do i get the feeling that the driving force here is some deranged pack of fags that want to give people 'the gift'?
Gabriel Hall
i dont support letting them live
Jaxon Johnson
>Even not accounting for any celibacy there have only been two cases (that I could find) of a gay person transmitting HIV via infected blood from the last twenty years in a developed nation.
The obvious retort here is that they aren't allowed to donate, hence the low numbers.
Colton Gutierrez
I dont see why they cant just do an HIV test on the spot. more gays need to know they are pozzed and we need as much non HIV blood as we can get. wheres the issue? (((oh right)))
Can you keep your Insidious faggotry out of the pol
Hudson Howard
>I don't see why they cant just do an HIV test on the spot
Cost. This stuff goes in big vats and the vats get tested. One contaminated supply ruins hundreds. If they did all the screening on each supply, the system would collapse due to the expense.
Nicholas White
There are countries where they are allowed to donate and the rates of blood product HIV transmission aren't higher there.
Bentley Torres
Absolutely not.
Benjamin Bennett
I think the answer is still no. It's not like we desperately need gays to donate blood - they're around 3-4% of the population after all.
Evan Roberts
As if you had some kind of "right" to donate blood, lol
Xavier Lewis
imagine getting a blood transplant then finding out you have fag blood in you
Xavier Ramirez
You'd only know when your GP told you that you have syphilis.
Brandon Rivera
ahaha funny cunt, nah deadset tho how fucking filthy would you feel aye
Hunter Long
Hell no. No gays, no juinkies ( current or former, ) or blacks should be blood donors. Their communties are high risk for things like aids and other stds.
You don't risk the blood banks for feelings.
Evan Fisher
The only positive thing in gay faggots donating blood is AIDS.
Christopher Howard
No. Gross.
Henry Reyes
In the early 80's blood banks tried to refuse gay blood because they didn't know how aids was being spread, and wanted to avoid the risks, but gay groups started complaining and threatening them with legal action for being discriminatory. After caving into the pressure many people who got blood transfusions ended up getting HIV because of them. Yet they will never acknowledge or apologize for what they did.
Benjamin Carter
Only if they donate exclusively to Jews to spread their diseases.
Isaiah Martin
They can donate to each other if they want.
Gavin Russell
I would bet the percentage of men who have sex with other men, at least some point in their adulthood, regardless of self-identification is way higher than 3%.
All the matters here is the benefits outweighing the risk. I couldn't find more than 1-2 direct confirmed tales of HIV transmission via blood product (in developed countries cause y'all link shit from India) in the last two decades. Clearly screening is pretty good at this point. I don't understand why the questions couldn't be about high-risk sex rather than just males having sex with other males.
If the potential benefit of allowing men who have sex with other men is higher than the risk, I think this policy is purely discriminatory and borne out of outdated stigma from a time where much less was known about diseases and testing overall.
Again, whatever happened in the past shouldn't inform the current situation. All that matters here is a sober, scientific, clinical risk v. benefit analysis, not your personal hatred and fear of homosexuals.
>the benefits outweighing the risk No, they don't. The risk is a batch of contaminated blood that can be pumped into anyone who matches the antigens. This isn't the usual "bb-but what about lbqt" or even "pay us to go away" scam. This is an unresonable medical risk that unless someone has invested in a failsafe screen will remain so. I'm all for the failsafe screen research, and if lbgt groups really gave a fuck about this, they would be too, and fund it.
No. I'm sure that people who want to donate blood do have good intentions. But it's just too risky given the rate of HIV in the gay community.
Jonathan Brown
no. They test the people before hand, however there is still a chance that someone slips up and gives a lot of people HIV. Homosexuals are statistically far more likely to have HIV than non homosexuals. Another part of this is that they combine blood into batches associated with the blood type. One bad blood batch contaminates the rest within that batch. It is statistically too risky, when this blood is going to people that may die without decent blood. Even if they screen all the blood afterwards, the screening is done post batch mixing as it's expensive to do it per person. If the blood is detected with any blood diseases or viruses then the entire batch is probably incinerated.
Dylan Foster
I don't hate or fear gays, but I do hate you faggot. No one wants or really needs gay blood. But don't take it too personally, it's not your fault taking cock in your ass is the most likely way to contract hiv-aids.
Isaiah Bailey
This. If they wanted to actually donate blood they'd keep their blood clean.
Brayden Jones
They have to be screened like everyone else my only worry is those POZ fags will ruin it
Christian Miller
>it's expensive >it takes quite a few months for HIV to be detectable
Nathan Myers
>Do you support letting gay men donate blood?
Yes.. we need the blood, AND we can check it to make sure it is mostly disease free.
John Gray
You are delusional to the problems to allowing a large population of people with high HIV rates will cause for blood banks and people receiving the blood. You wouldn't go to an HIV stricken country and Africa and start asking for blood donations from a village with even a 1 in 3 person infected. In I think there's a policy for that.
Bentley Sanchez
No cell barriers! Let all the A.I.D.S. in!! >the year
Funny how they only care about HIV The fucking SECOND these faggots get their hands on PReP they immediately start fucking raw there's fucking SYPHILIS outbreak in manhattan now because these mongoloids, not to mention increasing Hep.C and other STDs disgusting, give them gay marriage and now they want to pozz up poor hemophiliacs
>I'm sure that people who want to donate blood do have good intentions You don't know faggots.
Samuel Adams
It's like you're not supposed to put anything in your ass. It's like that's not what your asshole is meant for.
Angel Williams
I do, as long as they have to donate all of it.
Grayson Ross
When homosexuals stop being the majority of HIV/AIDS cases then we'll think about it
Adam Morris
No
Jordan Lopez
just a reminder that this is going to pass just like all the shit they "advocate" for passes, if you ever need blood demand that you only get synthetic plasma
Parker Baker
Then why does it feel so good?
Christian Stewart
The questions are about high-risk sex you dumb faggot. That's why they don't accept blood from people who fuck niggers.
Adrian Gutierrez
>That's why they don't accept blood from people who fuck niggers.
Then why do we accept blood FROM niggers?
Lincoln Johnson
What, but they do accept blood from Black people.
Dylan Johnson
You have a problem with promiscuity not gays, fri
Xavier Gonzalez
Couldn't the questions be about "did you have sex with multiple different partners without using protection in the last 6 months?" or something like that vs stigmatizing men who have sex with other men?
Blake Wilson
>The fucking SECOND these faggots get their hands on PReP they immediately start fucking raw You wouldnt believe how many fags dont protest if you try to go in raw
Christopher Harris
No because they has AIDS.
Hudson Nguyen
There are nerves in your anus so that you know when to shit. Probably developed them in the evolutionary tree at some point because it's less advantageous for predators/hunters to let off smell when they are hunting prey. The ones that had no control over their shit likely were unsuccessful or died off. Hence why the nerves in anus trait was favored in hunters. Notice that herbivores such as cows or sheep have little or no control when they shit, it just comes out.
Also your prostate happens to be located just beyond the rectum lining. Men that are also submissive like it in the ass because they essentially less than beta males, to the point where they are emasculated and hence behave like women. Men being emasculated also happens from childhood trauma such as bullying, sexual abuse or early drug abuse.
Being a faggot has a lot to do with being raised by women, older sisters or mothers, with little father presence.
All in all. Faggots are a result of them never being taught or shown masculine things when they were growing up. Also probably have never had to face any difficulty in their lives or risk behavior due to being raised by women or raised by a inept father. If we got heaps of faggots and put them alone in a survival situation for a week, most of them would be straight (that survive).
Jose Kelly
is that ricegum
Justin Evans
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Jose Harris
The state shouldn't ban anyone from donating blood, but the private groups that collect blood donations should be allowed to freely discriminate. Even without state mandated discrimination of gays, we all know that the blood organisations would continue to discriminate against homosexuals for the huge risk they pose.
Yes but through a charity separate to the red Cross or any of the regular blood collection services. They're a demographic that has a disproportionately high distribution of HIV infections and as such require more screening. Let some other charity take on the expenses of also taking blood from gay people and potentially having to toss all of it because it's contaminated.
>There are countries where they are allowed to donate Not in first world countries.
Samuel Foster
Faggots get off on the idea of infecting people with their gay cancer. It can never be allowed.
Cameron Martinez
Yes but that is logical and takes work
Robert Reed
Wrong, the government should ban it, because private organizations could be bullied into changing policies, and emergency patients have no say in where their blood comes from.
Evan Reed
This. It's the same reason women are more likely to contract an sti through sex than men. Open thin tissue transmits pathogens more easily than the skin of a penis. The anus is specifically made to absorb liquids into it's walls. Meaning any aids infected jizz is 100% being sucked up by your queer bung.
homosexuality leads to promiscuity, that's why it's stigmatized
Luke Nguyen
What about lesbians?
The study, titled “Choices: Perspectives of Younger Gay Men on Monogamy, Non-monogamy and Marriage,” was conduced by researchersBlake Spears and Lanz Lowen. They surveyed over 800 single, monogamously-coupled, and non-monogamously coupled gay menages 18-40 years about their relationships. A handful of “monogamish” men were also interviewed.
“The most striking finding of this study is younger gay men’s greater inclination toward monogamy,” the researchers report. “We see this in the overwhelming number of relationships that are monogamous (86percent). In addition, 90percentof the single younger gay men were seeking monogamy. This is a sea change compared to older generations of gay men.”
Because we can you from donating you fucking degenerate. And 2 is two too many.
Nathaniel Ramirez
Thanks for clearing that up Would you apply the same laws to slutty heterosexual people?
Hunter Scott
i dont even support gays existing in general, so no
Caleb Garcia
>third what the fuck is wrong with these people
Kayden Ramirez
Lesbians do not have elevated rates of blood borne pathogens so it would be safe. Your study is a sham fabricated by faggot activists. The gay community is just as much of a degenerate, non-committal legion of whores now as it was during the rise of the aids crisis.
Jose Mitchell
I hope faggots never get to donate blood for as long as I live, as well as my children & their children & their children to boot
>checkmate queers
Mason Williams
What are you defining as the gay community?
Henry Myers
Men who have sex with men and women with women
Adam Jackson
It's really amazing the lengths you people will go, to justify your behavior. Seeking is not that same as action. Of course people will say they are seeking this, as the latter makes them a lesser option for other partners, even if two people of similar mind set are together, yet when the opertunities arises that they can be fucked by 10 different fags at once they take that option as they there is no other reason they are gay other than for their own pleasure, they are hedonists. Many women will say the same thing yet still cheat, except they have a desire for protection for them and their potential child, and so a reliable relationship maybe desirable for many women. As opposed to a gay who only desires the most pleasurable experience.
Ayden Scott
And it is impossible for Christians who seek power in oppressing gays to fake results themselves somehow?
Liam Perez
>I want to donate blood >but I took it in the ass from 10 random dudes over the past few months >I had no knowledge of whether or not they were wearing a condom >nor do I know if they had any diseases >why won’t you let me donate blood bigot? Fags, everybody.
Robert Ortiz
Ah, so blanket statements. I bet the dry blood banks will thank you
Xavier Price
No. There is just a type of gay sicko that wants to spread their AIDS to everyone. Giving blood isn't exactly some sort of wonderful thrill to begin with that those who can't are robbed of life so they should shut up and curtail their sicktivities.
Anthony Perry
Yes, because medical and legal records are harder to spoof than an anonymous survey
Leo Price
Yes, but only for research of a cure for faggotry.
Luis Morgan
If you people would USE FUCKING CONDOMS this wouldn't be an issue. You're doing it to yourselves. This isn't a secret, Russian-Trump Alt-Right conspiracy to oppress you.
