“Blood is blood,” said Oklahoma Blood Institute Executive Director Jan Laub. Now the rules have been relaxed to where men who have sex with men must abstain from three months before being eligible to give. Rules were previously relaxed to where a gay man could give blood and plasma after abstaining from sexual activity for six months to a year, but for those in relationships and those who wanted to give during an event that happened on a day they found out about the rules, it was practically impossible to give.
