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Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 081735851X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of HIV came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation. The FDA's ban on blood donation by gay men served to propagate the social misconceptions about gay men that continue to circulate within both the straight and LGBT/Queer communities. Bennett explores the role of scientific research cited by these banned-blood policies and its disquieting relationship to government agencies, including the FDA. Bennett draws parallels between the FDA's position on homosexuality and the historical precedents of discrimination by government agencies against racial minorities. The author concludes by describing the resistance posed by queer donors, who either lie in order to donate blood or protest discrimination at donation sites, and by calling for these prejudiced policies to be abolished.
Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett Publisher: University Alabama Press ISBN: 9780817316648 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation. The FDA's ban on blood donation by gay men remains in effect and serves to propagate the social misconceptions about gay men that circulate within both the straight and gay communities today. Bennett explores the role of scientific research cited by these banned-blood policies and its disquieting relationship to government agencies, including the FDA. Bennett draws parallels between the FDA's position on homosexuality and the historical precedents of discrimination by government agencies against racial minorities. The author concludes by describing the resistance posed by queer donors, who either lie in order to donate blood or protest discrimination at donation sites, and by calling for these prejudiced policies to be abolished.
Author: Josh Trujillo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Blood donors Languages : en Pages : 0
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"After the most horrific attack against the Queer Community in American history, Gay men were still banned from donating blood. Despite decades of research and medical advances to screen for HIV and other infectious diseases, restrictions against Queer people donating blood are still upheld across the globe. This comic examines why this stigma stil lpersists and argues how lifting these outdated barriers could save millions of lives every year."--Back cover.
Author: Adam R. Pulver Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 31
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Since 1984, federal guidelines have effectively banned the donation of blood by any male who has had sex with another male since 1977. Despite this seemingly facially discriminatory policy, one of the few federal policies that makes any differentiation based on sexual orientation, advocacy around the issue has been limited. While there have been occasional calls for the policy's repeal, no litigation has been filed, and no national advocacy campaign has emerged. In fact, of the websites of major gay rights organizations, only one even mentions the policy. Yet individuals continue to engage in acts of advocacy calling for change - labeling the policy as quot;absurd,quot; discriminatory, and even unconstitutional.This article examines the social movement activity around the policy, highlighting factual and logical flaws in arguments made by activists, and comprehensively reviewing the actual history behind the policy. Applying legal and social movement theory, it attempts to explain why no legal action has been filed, why social movements have been unsuccessful, and why young gay men, on college campuses in particular, continue to vehemently protest the policy as an issue of quot;basic human rights.quot;The article concludes with proposals to change the conversation around the policy to explicitly acknowledge competing principles: public health's precautionary principle, and a nondiscrimination principle espoused by LGBT activists. Ignoring epidemiological realities, I argue, will never successfully lead to regulatory change.
Author: Dr. Nathaniel Frank Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 142990271X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 368
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When the "don't ask, don't tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military's policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that "don't ask, don't tell" must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay ban. Frank is one of the nation's leading experts on gays in the military, and in his evenhanded and always scrupulously documented chronicle, he reveals how the ban on open gays and lesbians in the U.S. military has greatly increased discharges, hampered recruitment, and—contrary to the rationale offered by proponents of the ban—led to lower morale and cohesion within military ranks. Frank does not shy away from tackling controversial issues, and he presents indisputable evidence showing that gays already serve openly without causing problems, and that the policy itself is weakening the military it was supposed to protect. In addition to the moral pitfalls of the gay ban, Frank shows the practical damage it has wrought. Most recently, the discharge of valuable Arabic translators (who happen to be gay) under the current policy has left U.S. forces ill-equipped in the fight against terrorism. Part history, part exposé, and fully revealing, Unfriendly Fire is poised to become the definitive story of "don't ask, don't tell." This lively and compelling narrative is sure to make the blood boil of any American who cares about national security, the right to speak the truth, or just plain common sense and fairness.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309053293 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 349
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During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease. During this period of great uncertainty, decision-making regarding the blood supply became increasingly difficult and fraught with risk. This volume provides a balanced inquiry into the blood safety controversy, which involves private sexual practices, personal tragedy for the victims of HIV/AIDS, and public confidence in America's blood services system. The book focuses on critical decisions as information about the danger to the blood supply emerged. The committee draws conclusions about what was doneâ€"and recommends what should be done to produce better outcomes in the face of future threats to blood safety. The committee frames its analysis around four critical area: Product treatmentâ€"Could effective methods for inactivating HIV in blood have been introduced sooner? Donor screening and referralâ€"including a review of screening to exlude high-risk individuals. Regulations and recall of contaminated bloodâ€"analyzing decisions by federal agencies and the private sector. Risk communicationâ€"examining whether infections could have been averted by better communication of the risks.
Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 081735851X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of HIV came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation. The FDA's ban on blood donation by gay men served to propagate the social misconceptions about gay men that continue to circulate within both the straight and LGBT/Queer communities. Bennett explores the role of scientific research cited by these banned-blood policies and its disquieting relationship to government agencies, including the FDA. Bennett draws parallels between the FDA's position on homosexuality and the historical precedents of discrimination by government agencies against racial minorities. The author concludes by describing the resistance posed by queer donors, who either lie in order to donate blood or protest discrimination at donation sites, and by calling for these prejudiced policies to be abolished.
Author: D. van de Leemput Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 148
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Investigation of the protests of the Dutch gay movement against the exclusion of gay men as blood donors. It looks at the three moments that gained the most public attention: the negotiations in the first stage of the AIDS epidemic in 1083, the protest against the donor statement in 1988-1990, and the case before the Committee for Equal Treatment in 1997-1999.
Author: OmiSoore H. Dryden Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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In this dissertation, I explore the Canadian Blood Services blood donation questionnaire and how the blood stories assembled within this document, and in the larger blood system, intersect with and depict blackness, queer (diaspora) sexualities, and Canadian (homo)nation-making. Narratives on blood produce moments of discipline, regulation, and confinement. Canadian Blood Services argues that its donor questionnaire is designed to effectively screen potential blood donors, with a number of questions focused on preventing an HIV/AIDS outbreak in the general population. The information gathered from these diverse questions constructs a figure of the ideal blood donor, thus creating a distinction between people whose blood gives life and people whose blood brings death. These distinctions result in the ban of particular groups of people, including bisexual and gay men and African people. Through centring a black queer diasporic analytic and reading practice, I am able to interrogate the ontological problem made of blackness. I contend that queerer modalities of thought are necessary to account for the complicated realities of racialized sexuality lived through black queered bodies and by black queer and trans people (and their blood). I analyze a diverse set of archives, including the donor questionnaire; websites of social and political organizations involved in the gay-blood debates; and legal, news, and government documents pertaining to the Canadian blood system. I seek to break the public silence on how blood continues to be used to justify the denigration of the lives of black people, both inside and outside of gay spaces, to push against the narrow, normative Eurocentric structures of gay blood. Thus, this reading acts as a decolonial, diasporic, transgressive project of writing blackness. My intervention into these anti-normative, anti-colonial discussions of blood, queerness, and blackness engages in a form of â epistemic disobedienceâ necessary to think differently about and disrupt both the homonationalist framing of gay blood and, more importantly, how we envision queer communities in our diasporic home-making. It is this that I seek to provoke in this thesis: to bring together the tangible and incoherent realities of our lives in order to articulate and engage in transformative justice.
Author: Nathaniel Frank Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books ISBN: 9780312373481 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 368
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When the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military’s policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that “don’t ask, don’t tell” must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay ban. Frank is one of the nation’s leading experts on gays in the military, and in his evenhanded and always scrupulously documented chronicle, he reveals how the ban on open gays and lesbians in the U.S. military has greatly increased discharges, hampered recruitment, and—contrary to the rationale offered by proponents of the ban—led to lower morale and cohesion within military ranks. Frank does not shy away from tackling controversial issues, and he presents indisputable evidence showing that gays already serve openly without causing problems, and that the policy itself is weakening the military it was supposed to protect. In addition to the moral pitfalls of the gay ban, Frank shows the practical damage it has wrought. Most recently, the discharge of valuable Arabic translators (who happen to be gay) under the current policy has left U.S. forces ill-equipped in the fight against terrorism. Part history, part exposé, and fully revealing, Unfriendly Fire is poised to become the definitive story of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” This lively and compelling narrative is sure to make the blood boil of any American who cares about national security, the right to speak the truth, or just plain common sense and fairness.
Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett
Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett
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Author: Adam R. Pulver
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Author: Dr. Nathaniel Frank
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Jeffrey A. Bennett
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Author: OmiSoore H. Dryden
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