Last week during the president’s COVID-19 briefing, United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams called on healthy Americans to band together and donate blood to help alleviate shortages caused by necessary social distancing measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But giving blood is a privilege for many people, and I, like many other gay and bisexual men I know, was immediately reminded of an uncomfortable truth about living in 2020: We’re still not allowed to donate blood.
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