# UK to kind of end gay blood ban

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**Created:** [September 8, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-to-kind-of-end-gay-blood-ban/595643 "2011-09-08T18:48:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-to-kind-of-end-gay-blood-ban/595643/1 "2011-09-08T18:48:37Z")

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[Story from CNN](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/08/parts-of-uk-to-lift-lifetime-ban-on-gay-men-donating-blood/?hpt=hp_t2)

So you’ll be able to donate if you are gay in thought, but have not been gay in deed for at least twelve months.

It’s a step, anyway, and I see the US following the UK’s example in a few years, assuming no plagues of locusts nor rivers of blood ensue in merry old England.