Originally published August 9 2005
Gay male sues blood service over donation policy
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
An Australian man is suing the Red Cross Blood service in Australia because of their policy of not accepting blood donations from sexually active homosexuals.
Michael Cain took his case to an anti-discrimination court and the national equal opportunity commission after being told he was barred from donating blood because he had had sex with another man in the past 12 months.
Cain, 22, said a Red Cross nurse referred to him and other homosexual men as "you people."
"I know that I have safe sex...
It almost felt like I was being accused of being a dirty person," Australian Associated Press quoted him as saying.
Gay rights groups have called on the Red Cross to drop its ban on active homosexual men from donating blood, particularly since HIV affects all sectors of the community.
"You should ask them about their safe or unsafe sexual activity, and about whether they're having sex with a regular partner, not whether they're gay or whether they have sex with men," Rodney Croome of the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group told ABC radio.
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