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irisblue

(37,422 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:41 PM 18 hrs ago

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 18 hrs ago OP

Old gay man here. Munu 18 hrs ago #1

Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic irisblue 18 hrs ago #2

Donating blood has been important at all times. I'm a straight male... NNadir 7 hrs ago #3

Munu

(200 posts)

1. Old gay man here.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:47 PM

18 hrs ago

I remember that. Haven't thought about it in years.

You were great.

irisblue

(37,422 posts)

2. Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic

Reply to Munu (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:51 PM

18 hrs ago

Brother mine hugs back at you🫂

NNadir

(37,922 posts)

3. Donating blood has been important at all times. I'm a straight male...

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 08:36 AM

7 hrs ago

...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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