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Mar 03, 2007
Quickie Link: Protest Against Irish Gay Blood Ban
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By vanrozenheim
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(Ireland) - Students and gay activists yesterday [March 01] marched outside the Department of Health protesting the continued ban on gay men donating blood in Ireland. The ban on 'gay blood' has been in force since the mid-1980s and is imposed by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). The rally was addressed by gay rights campaigner Senator David Norris. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), co-organiser of the protest, said the Minister, Mary Harney, would be guilty of 'institutional discrimination' unless she immediately set up a working group to investigate the ban.
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