Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic, gay men, even those who are HIV negative, have not been allowed to donate blood to the Red Cross. This is extremely homophobia and dangerous. Regardless of the actual risk of your relationships, if you report any sexual activity, you are banned. Consider if they imposed this same restriction on heterosexuals, no donation if you have been sexually active in the past three months. That would really limit our country’s blood supply. Many people find this nature of the ban, the difference in rules for gay versus straight people—homophobic, and kind of inappropriate given where the science and need is.