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[brewens]

61. Looks like a case of BLM refusing to take yes for an answer. I reminds me of a couple of years

ago running a blood drive at a major university. The campus Gay-Straight Alliance student group sponsored it. They were allowed to set up at the same long table I was registering donors at to push their petition to the FDA to relax the lifetime ban on gay males donating blood.

I along with the entire blood center crew signed their petition. None of us objected to their getting that ban overturned, and it's not us or our management that is responsible in any way for gay men not being allowed to donate at our drives. That's a CDC and FDA thing. We have to follow the regulations they lay down.

The militant attitude of some of the GSA kids in effect turned it into a protest of the blood drive. They were supposed to be working with us and should have been encouraging anyone that was elligible to donate. Maybe our event planners should have made that a little more clear when they met with them. All they did was point out that it was discrimination that they couldn't donate blood that day. They managed to get quite a few prospective donors pissed off at us.

We've had a couple of new recruiters in my area working the universities and I've made sure to tell each of them that we probably don't want to work with that group again.