No: 11 The Blood Ban
by Tomas Heneghan
I was 16 the first time someone told me I could never donate blood. I was in school, looking at sample donor questionnaires the teacher had given the class. I wasn’t out and hadn’t accepted I was gay, but that didn’t stop another student in class turning around to me and saying I would never be able to donate blood because of one question on the form. “Have you ever had anal or oral sex with another man?”