A man in Chicago was rejected from giving blood because a blood center deemed him "too gay". What's more, the man in question, 22 year old Aaron Pace, is not homosexual. Pace says he was deemed to be gay due to his appearance and behavior.
This exclusion was based on a policy implemented in 1983 that states that any man who has had intercourse with another man is not allowed to donate blood. This policy was a result of the outbreak of HIV that was first clinically observed in the early 1980s. However, at the time the detection of HIV in blood was far less advanced than it is now.
Pace said he felt “humiliated and embarrassed." “It's not right that homeless people can give blood but homosexuals can't," he said. "And I'm not even a homosexual."ORIGINAL SOURCE
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