Organizers are circulating a petition that they plan to deliver to Prime
Minister Gordon Brown.

The National Blood Service believes gay men are too high-risk because of
the short gap between one’s getting infected with HIV and when the virus
can be detected by a blood test.

Bloodban says people should be excluded based on their lifestyle, not
because of their membership in a particular social group.

The activists propose that gay men be banned as donors only if they have
had unprotected sex in the past 18 months.