Donation Not Discrimination Priority Campaign
November 2nd was the the National Day of Action for the Donation Not Discrimination Priority Campaign. Since that day, 25 students' unions have held events on their campus or local blood centre to highlight the homophobic policies of the National Blood Service, and to encourage people to give blood in place of gay and bisexual men. Since the early 1980s gay and bisexual men who have ever had anal or oral sex with another man, with or without a condom, have been permanently banned from donating their blood. Thank you to all those who have taken part in the campaign so far!
Demos took place in the following towns and cities:
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Bournemouth
Bradford
Brighton
Derby
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hatfield
Keele
Leicester
Liverpool (see photo)
London
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Plymouth
Preston
Reading
Salford
Stirling
Stoke-on-Trent
York
Resources for your campaign
We have produced loads of materials and information for the Donation Not Discrimination campaign, which you can download from the 'resources' section of our webpage.
Petitions and Photos
Don't forget to send us your petitions and photos. We are looking for 10,000 signatures to hand in to the Department of Health and photos to put on the website.
Send them to: LGBT Unit, NUS HQ, Centro 3, 19 Mandela Street, NW1 0DU.
Or email photos to lgbt@nus.org.uk.
Join the Donation Not Discrimination group on Facebook
Thanks!
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