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NNadir

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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

10 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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