Watch: Alan Cumming Mocks FDA’s Latest Anti-Gay Blood Rules In Hysterical New Campaign
Alan Cumming is the national spokesperson for “America’s Hardest Challenge,” an effort to get the FDA to change its discriminatory anti-gay rules.
Alan Cumming may be best-known for his roles in Cabaret and The Good Wife, and the Scottish-American actor does not disappoint in this campaign to get the FDA to change its discriminatory anti-gay rules on blood donation.
Recently, the FDA changed the rules for any man who has ever has sex with another man, from being never allowed to donate blood, to having to wait a year after the last time they had sex with another man to donate blood.
“That’s right,” Cumming says in the video below, “365 days of celibacy.”
GLAAD and GMHC have partnered with Cumming to launch a campaign that mocks that new rule, which is not based on science but fear and anti-gay discrimination.
“So straight guys can have safe sex with woman after woman and still donate blood. But gay and bi men who have had safe sex for an entire year—even with a monogamous partner—would still be banned,” their Celibacy Challenge petition reads. “Sounds like discrimination to us.”
Cumming offers hysterical things to do “to help you abstain from any naughty temptation” while you’re waiting a year before you can donate blood, like, “take a pottery class”:
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Visit the Celibacy Challenge, sign the petition, and share some of their social media offerings.
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Images: Screenshots via YouTube
Thanks to GLAAD and GMHCÂ for this campaign!
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