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irisblue

(37,926 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:41 PM Mar 18

Bisexual & Lesbian Women from the 80s & 90s were you ever a Blood Sister?

Blood sisters were lesbians who in the early years of the AIDs donated blood, in hopes for brothers we could stop the depopulation of gay men


Not with acknowledge that homophobia took an entire generation on pan & gay & bisexual men into invisibility, lesbians, bisexual & pan women were not a thought.

[I am NOT ignoring transgender people. At that time I did not have the words or culture to use them]

https://diva-magazine.com/2024/02/08/the-blood-sisters/


It was a long time ago & now is far away.


I donated regularly. I hope it helped

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Bisexual & Lesbian Women from the 80s & 90s were you ever a Blood Sister? (Original Post) irisblue Mar 18 OP
Old gay man here. Munu Mar 18 #1
Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic irisblue Mar 18 #2
Donating blood has been important at all times. I'm a straight male... NNadir Mar 19 #3

irisblue

(37,926 posts)
2. Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:51 PM
Mar 18

Brother mine hugs back at you🫂

NNadir

(38,547 posts)
3. Donating blood has been important at all times. I'm a straight male...
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 08:36 AM
Mar 19

...proud of marital fidelity for 40 years and regularly donated for almost all of that time until recently when a prostate medication I'm taking made me ineligible.

It was triply important to donate at that time because I knew I wasn't carrying HIV.

During the AIDS crisis it was triply important to donate of course and if gay women were inspired to donate at the time in support of gay men, they helped not only their gay brothers, but all of humanity.

When I was 22 a blood transfusion saved my life.

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