A gay night club in Orlando, Florida got shot up. 50 people are dead. Just thought I’d let you know.
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Didnt hear about this and i live an hour away from orlando. I guess i should watch the news more…
Just looked it up though and i think they got him.
I cried a little. <.< Not gonna lie, I’m a softy over stuff like this and it hits home when you’re a part of the LGBTQ. Hell it should if you’re just a human being. Worst mass shooting in American history since Virginia Tech. 50 dead & 53 injured. It could have been more as there were explosives found. Worst part since the whole thing happened is they won’t even allow the LGBT community to donate blood to help. If you’re not LGBT and you’re in the Orlando area, you should think about it. Always good to help people.
Praying for them.
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Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve had something hit home like that–not that I’m not affected by tragedies… it’s just more personal when you’re a member of the LBGTQ(et.al) community. I thought that ban on blood donation was revoked back in 2015??
Apparently it’s “just” gay men. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283186-shooting-at-gay-nightclub-resurfaces-anger-over-blood-donation
Also they are now at capacity for blood. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-blood-donations-20160612-story.html
The article also states on the blood ban:
In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration relaxed a lifetime ban that had forbid gay and bisexual men from donating blood. That ban stemmed from the early days of the AIDS epidemic to guard against the transmission of the AIDS virus through a medical blood transfusion.
Despite the FDA’s action, OneBlood has not yet completed an update of its policies.
Donors are evaluated to determine eligibility to give blood, and gay and bisexual men who acknowledge they have previously been sexually active cannot donate. Other donors could be turned away, for instance, if they have been in a country where they were exposed to risk of infection for malaria, the zika virus and other pathogens that could be transmitted through transfusion.
Was it an anti-gay attack? I’m assuming it was and will voice my concerns with that implication in mind.
It seems LGBT’s battle for acceptance is still an ongoing process. Being “legally” able to marry and have a relationship with the same sex or being able to change your gender legally is one part of the battle.
The most difficult part is dealing with all of the closed minded, brainwashed freaks who inhabit this ridiculous country. I recently moved down south after living up north my whole life and the experience is miserable. Everyone here is so “traditional” minded that anyone who doesn’t fall into this belief system:
- Overly religious
- Man and woman are the only people who should hook up/marry.
- You should ONLY be the gender you were born with
Are immediately shunned and humiliated publicly. In fact too much display against the common belief system here can lead to violent consequences.
This country has a rampaging hate problem. A country that was built on the ideology of freedom and built from the labors of immigrants turns out to be overwhelmed with entitled, closed-minded bigots who go to these kind of extremes to make their point.
Fcking martyrdom over pointless hatred. This has me all fired up and my face is fcking red from rage. Someday I might stop hating this country before I die of old age.
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Well at least they’re at capacity…?
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@FlanFlan I agree completely. Funnily, 2 nights ago I was discussing with someone over why through out history LGBT has been considered “bad.” It all comes back to religion, it has influenced everything. Main stream religions and churches, for the most part, say for whatever reason (there’s not an exact passage in the Bible, for example, though there is in the Quran if I recall correctly) that condemns homosexuals, but it hints to it. It’s all interpretations and most interpretations have been agreed upon to some degree. Anyway, government, societal rules, morality - even for people who are not religious. It’s what society for the most part was founded on. Only in the last 40 years in Western countries have we seen a gradual acceptance of things that are not wide stream religious norms. I’m not dissing religion here, I’m religious. However in order to break things like hate based on sexual identity, people need to realize their beliefs are not the only ones that matter. Religion in its self is also evolving as we grow smarter and personal identity/happiness is acknowledged more - example being half of Methodist Christians accept LGBT members and do not condemn them.
Hate is also ignorance and unwillingness to see or acknowledge anything other than what you know already. To deny yourself education of things different from you, and just go with what you “think” you know. For instance race. Not so much influenced by religion as LGBT has been, but again it’s what people are taught. Through out history, just generations ago, blacks were considered so dirty you could not share water. As if they are a virus, which in some ways… Makes you think of gay men being denied the right to help people. History repeats.
I was born and raised in Virginia, I’ve even heard from white Christians how “God said races should not mix.” And when you’re in a mixed race relationship here, or God forbid a mixed race LGBT one - I wish you the best of luck. I’ve sat in diners with my husband and been called a nigger lover.
@Rabbit And stuff like that gives you a little hope, no? That many people cared.
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I never heard that gay guys cant give blood. Makes sense though when i read this.
"Gay men make up roughly half of the patients living with HIV in the United States, despite accounting for just four percent of the population. The CDC reports that 63 percent of new HIV infections occur among MSM – the agency’s shorthand for “Men Who Have Sex With Men.”
Seems to be for safety reasons and not just hating on their lifestyle.
@FlanFlan I personally dont care what other people do, but i guess i fall in your #3. I dont think you can choose your gender. born as a guy? your a guy. Try not to take it offensively though… just my opinion.
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Science, my friend. Let’s embrace the future and allow people to change who they are to be what they feel they are. Before advancements in technology you didn’t have much choice but now you do.
Prior to technology there was still a great deal of people who just couldn’t fit in as their birth gender. You can ‘force’ them to ‘conform’ but it doesn’t mean they can be ‘forced’ to be happy 
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There is some Science behind male/female psychology and neurology. A good example is before you are a male in the womb, you are a female. Chemicals determining our traits and brain chemistry. There are men who have more estrogen than they are “suppose” to and women who have more testosterone. Ever wonder why you see a woman with facial hair similar to a man? Or men who have very soft, feminine features, sometimes breasts. That’s why. All of these chemicals influence us, it’s why women are more likely to get emotionally attached to a sexual relationship than a man, and why men are often more aggressive. It effects our thinking and emotional responses to the core.
So beyond Science, and genetics being a very fickle thing, people have the right to do as they wish. If it makes them happy, just respect it.
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Also, did a little reading, blood is tested for HIV anyway before being given to a patient. I figured but wanted to confirm before I posted here. There isn’t a reason to deny anyone who thinks they are healthy who donates, because it will all be tested anyway.
http://www.who.int/bloodsafety/ScreeningDonatedBloodforTransfusion.pdf
May the souls rest in peace. #lovewins
They lifted the ban temporary for this.
But yeah, I use to give blood as a teenager and when I started getting laid I had to stop.
Unfortunately that ended up being false. https://twitter.com/my1blood/status/742035796824186880
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NYTimes is pretty credible about things like this. I’d say it was not false:
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Yeah but it still applies to all sexually active men in the last year, people were thinking that for this incident it was temporarily removed, and then OneBlood who is taking the donations confirmed it has not been.
The reason i believe you are what you were born as, is because of genes. chromosomes and all that. You cant change your dna. At least i dont think you can?