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Can the Conservative Party of Canada come out of the closet?

Tories have long made LGBTQ2S+ rights a wedge issue. Now the issue is dividing the party—and thwarting its chances at winning the next federal election

Minister Bardish Chagger’s year in queer politics

Canada’s first Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth

By Fae Johnstone

Trudeau said an end to the blood ban was coming. So why hasn’t anything changed?

Despite blood supply shortages during COVID-19, the Canadian government still hasn’t ended the blood ban. Now, activists are asking for answers

Queer men and trans women can’t donate plasma for COVID-19 research

Even amid a pandemic, blood and plasma bans remain in place for queer and trans people across North America

Power

Amid COVID-19, lawmakers call to end blood donation bans for queer men

Outdated discriminatory policies hurt, especially in times of national emergency

Opinion

We were warned about the problems with Canada’s gay blood ban

LGBTQ2 people want to donate blood, but Canada’s system relies on paid-for plasma instead. If the country’s tainted blood scandal is any proof, we’re in for trouble

By Christopher Karas

Health

Why anti-Black racism in Canadian blood donation is also a gay issue

Canada’s history of banning men who have sex with men and Haitians from donating blood goes back to its panic over HIV/AIDS and miscegenation

By OmiSoore Dryden

Canada

All the ways Canada is still screwing over LGBTQ2S+ people

Just a tiny reminder this Canada Day 2019 that we are still fighting for our rights

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis

Health

Who can donate sperm in Canada? Not gay men

New Health Canada regulations mean gay men can donate blood after three months. But there’s still a lifetime ban on sperm

By Alison Motluk

What you need to know about Canada’s blood donation ban on men who have sex with men

Gender fluid emojis, gay beer, and the Met Gala. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, May 10

By Arvin Joaquin

Power

Can gay men donate organs in Canada?

Perplexing campaigns by public health agencies say they’ll take organs from gays, but the truth is more complicated

Gay U of T student launches Ally Blood Bank

By Jeremy Feist

Power

New Zealand seeks to change gay blood-donor rules

NZ Blood Service accepts recommendation to reduce waiting period to one year

By Natasha Barsotti

Power

Group petitions for end to law that rejects organs of gay men

iCANdonate calls law ‘discriminatory’ and ‘antiquated’

By Julie Cruikshank

Power

Canadian Blood Services grilled at Gay Men’s Health Summit

New five-year deferral still discriminatory, critics say

By Nathaniel Christopher

Power

Health Canada replaces gay blood ban with five-year deferral

Activists not satisfied with new policy that only celibate gays can donate

Gay organ donor denied for being ‘high risk’

By Jeremy Feist

Power

Gay men and the Canadian Blood Services

End of blood donation ban unlikely to resolve tumultuous relationship

By Hilary Beaumont

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