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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Challenges FDA Gay Blood Ban: 'Have the Courage to Set Policies Based on Science'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Challenges FDA Gay Blood Ban: 'Have the Courage to Set Policies Based on Science'
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) again spoke out against the FDA’s new blood donation policy — accepting blood from gay men, but only those who have been abstinent for at least one year.
Through Twitter, Warren called for concrete, alternative methods of ensuring blood safety, challenging the FDA to shake up the status quo.
Here’s the Tweet:
The FDA must commit to building a bigger, safer blood supply through risk-based screening & have courage to set policies based on science.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 24, 2014
This statement is in line with the recent letter, signed by 80 congressional Democrats including Warren, which called for “risk-based blood donation policy,” and stated:
The pertinent scientific question is not whether a cross-section of the population is more likely than another to transmit an infection, but rather whether an across-the-board, risk-based screening will reduce the likelihood of all infectious contaminations.
In related news, the FDA released a statement this week saying it had considered individual self-assessments, but did not find them reliable:
“Assessment of high-risk sexual behaviors would be highly burdensome on blood donation establishments and potentially offensive to donors.”
John Aravosis over at AMERICAblog has some colorful commentary on the FDA’s recent response:
So to recap, the FDA believes that a total stranger asking a man if he’s gay — a highly personal, and for some embarrassing, admission that could get you fired from your job, and disowned by your family — is not “offensive.”
Nor is it offensive to ask a gay man when the last time is he screwed another guy.
But if you ask a straight man whether he’s monogamous, how non-monogamous he is (how many different partners he’s had), and whether he use condoms during intercourse, suddenly the FDA becomes a collective prude.
I try not to over-use the word “homophobia.” But the FDA’s response to this mess is deplorable, offensive, and homophobic.
What do you think of the one-year deferral policy and the FDA’s handling of the situation?
Jake Folsom
Rogério Sottili: SP será mais acolhedora para estrangeiros e LGBT
Rogério Sottili: SP será mais acolhedora para estrangeiros e LGBT
O secretário municipal de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania, Rogério Sottili, faz um balanço das políticas públicas para 2015, com destaque para estrangeiros e LGBT.
Savage: Parents of Trans Teen Who Ended Life Should Be Prosecuted
Savage: Parents of Trans Teen Who Ended Life Should Be Prosecuted
Columnist Dan Savage has harsh words for the parents of Leelah Alcorn.
Neal Broverman
St. Louis Musician Files Lawsuit Claiming He Was Discriminated Against Because His Partner is a Black Man
St. Louis Musician Files Lawsuit Claiming He Was Discriminated Against Because His Partner is a Black Man
Musician and teacher James Mounsey has sued the St. Louis Irish Arts Center (SLIA), citing discrimination. Specifically, the suit says “defendants began to discriminate against [Mounsey]…because his partner is a black man.”
The SLIA is an official member of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, the international organization that promotes traditional Irish arts and culture. Mounsey’s lawsuit points to the rules of the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, which he claims were violated by other SLIA employees, who undermined and discriminated against him on the basis of his same-sex relationship.
Specifically implicated in the lawsuit is SLIA director Helen Gannon. Mounsey says Gannon once told him: “you [Mounsey] have made some grave decisions very, very quickly which will affect every aspect of your life flaunting them and forcing us to accept them which will have consequences out of your control.”
Gannon denies having made these statements, saying “teachers were discouraged from bringing dates to work,“ but that otherwise, Mounsey’s claims are false.
With his lawsuit, Mounsey has provided a letter he sent to Gannon, resigning due to a “discriminatory atmosphere” in the workplace. In December 2013, while on a trip to his native Ireland, Mounsey was told via letter that he was “no longer affiliated with SLIA.”
Jake Folsom
www.towleroad.com/2015/01/st-louis-musician-sues-for-discrimination-1.html
Landmark ruling for same-sex couples in FL / LGBT, Florida
Landmark ruling for same-sex couples in FL / LGBT, Florida
Landmark ruling for same-sex couples in FL A federal judge broke down one of the final barriers for same-sex couples seeking a marriage license in Florida. Joy Reid talks with Stratton Pollitzer,…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9tKx2MvQs&feature=youtube_gdata
Of Rose Parades, Racism and Marriage Equality
Of Rose Parades, Racism and Marriage Equality
I grew up quite literally around the corner from the Rose Parade. It was so much a part of my growing up that I don’t even remember the first time I went. And so it’s entirely possible I was part of crowd gathered along Colorado Boulevard in 1958 – the year Joan Williams did not ride in the Rose Parade.
The story was widely reported over the last few weeks. Ms. Williams was “Miss Crown City 1958” – chosen by judges to represent Pasadena city employees at a variety of ceremonial occasions, including the Rose Parade. But that didn’t happen. “Once they learned I was African American, I wasn’t the person they wanted representing the city,” Williams said. And in 1958, Pasadena’s solution to the “problem” of Joan Williams was to not have a float in the Rose Parade at all that year.
Seriously. That’s how far one city would go in 1958 to keep from including an African American in the Rose Parade: just opt out all together.
That arc of history we’re told is long but bends toward justice bent just a little further yesterday when Joan Williams road on the banner float leading the 2015 Rose Parade down Colorado Boulevard – a float entitled “Inspiring Stories.” Having received what she described as a “heartfelt” letter of apology from Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Williams accepted the invitation from Tournament of Roses officials to ride this year.
“I want to honor the community and especially the African-American community who were so vocal about feeling the city needed to make an apology,” she said in a Pasadena Star News article. She said it was an especially poignant moment amid all of the protests around the country and the slogan “black lives matter.” She said she believed it was a sign that the city wants to move forward.
Ironically, I read Joan Williams’ story in the same newsfeed as I read this one from Florida. Three Florida courthouses will no longer perform weddings after gay marriages ruled constitutional. “The decision by Duval, Clay and Baker counties comes after Judge Robert Hinkle announced Wednesday that any court refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses would be in violation of the U.S. Constitution. In an effort to avoid the situation altogether, the officials for the counties say they will no longer hold wedding ceremonies for anyone.”
Seriously. That’s how far three counties will go in 2015 to keep from treating gay and lesbian couples with the same respect and dignity offered to their straight neighbors. Yet another illustration of how far we have yet to go until “liberty and justice for all” really means “all.”
And let me just add – as a priest and pastor – that the time worn “it violates my beliefs” argument being advanced by Florida county clerks is plumb worn out.
Because here’s the deal: The First Amendment protects your right to believe absolutely anything you choose to about what God blesses or doesn’t bless; intends or doesn’t intend; is present or is absent in … up to and including whether there is a God at all. What it does NOT protect is your right to confuse what you believe with what the Constitution protects. And again and again and again the highest courts in the land have agreed that the equal protection guaranteed all Americans is not equal protection unless it equally protects all Americans equally.
Yes, we are still on a journey toward making that dream of liberty and justice for all not just a pledge we make to our flag but a reality we live in our nation. And next week — when same-sex couples start getting married in Florida — we will be a little closer to that goal.
And in a decade or two – or five or six – when those who shamefully decided that the solution to the “problem” of same-sex couples who want to love, honor and cherish each other until death do they part is to not hold wedding ceremonies for anybody come to their senses and issue an apology I hope it’s as “heartfelt” as the one the Mayor of Pasadena offered to Joan Williams. And I hope it doesn’t take 58 years.
Happy New Year.
Disturbing Video Catches Antigay Hate Crime In Atlanta
Disturbing Video Catches Antigay Hate Crime In Atlanta
“As we were walking up, a car started following slowly behind us. It was a BMW honking its horn. It was just making us uncomfortable really,” the boyfriend of the victim of an anti-gay hate crime in Atlanta recounts to the GA Voice.
The couple had just had dinner at popular gay-owned restaurant Campagnolo and were on their way to get desert at Cafe Intermezzo when the incident began.
They ignored the car’s honks, but the suspects inside started calling them faggots, and one hopped out and assaulted the victim, pushing him into oncoming traffic.
“I didn’t know what happened at that time, all I know is [the victim] is in the street,” the boyfriend says. “It all happened so fast. He was yelling ‘I’m a Mexican! I’m a Mexican!’ which makes no sense. He was pumping his chest.”
The attack was caught on nearby security cameras, and thanks to the boyfriend’s cell phone video, police have identified the car the suspects were driving in.
Unfortunately, police haven’t made solid headway on identifying the suspect, a development that frustrates the couple.
“We were told they talked to the guy and they said he doesn’t know the passenger, and that he picked the guy up on one block and dropped him off on another,” the boyfriend says. “It’s crazy to me saying, ‘I don’t know the passenger in my car who beat up that guy.’ It’s just crazy, I don’t believe it.”
The Atlanta Police Department’s official statement is:
“The suspect has not been identified at this time,” said APD spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy. “We do not know with certainty that the parties knew each other or had just met. We ask that anyone with information to please call CRIME STOPPERS Atlanta. 404-577-TIPS.”
Below are the two videos taken during the attack:
h/t GA Voice
Dan Tracer