Bisexual & Lesbian Women from the 80s & 90s were you ever a Blood Sister?

[irisblue]

Blood sisters were lesbians who in the early years of the AIDs donated blood, in hopes for brothers we could stop the depopulation of gay men


Not with acknowledge that homophobia took an entire generation on pan & gay & bisexual men into invisibility, lesbians, bisexual & pan women were not a thought.

[I am NOT ignoring transgender people. At that time I did not have the words or culture to use them]

https://diva-magazine.com/2024/02/08/the-blood-sisters/


It was a long time ago & now is far away.


I donated regularly. I hope it helped

[Munu]

1. Old gay man here.

I remember that. Haven't thought about it in years.

You were great.

[irisblue]

2. Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic

Brother mine hugs back at you🫂

[NNadir]

3. Donating blood has been important at all times. I'm a straight male...

...proud of marital fidelity for 40 years and regularly donated for almost all of that time until recently when a prostate medication I'm taking made me ineligible.

It was triply important to donate at that time because I knew I wasn't carrying HIV.

During the AIDS crisis it was triply important to donate of course and if gay women were inspired to donate at the time in support of gay men, they helped not only their gay brothers, but all of humanity.

When I was 22 a blood transfusion saved my life.