Taylor Swift parody targets blood ban ruleOnline
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How does one take on the US Food and Drug
Administration's (FDA) rules about gay men giving blood? Use a Taylor
Swift song, of course.
Jake Wilson took Taylor Swift's massive hit Bad Blood and turned it into a call to change FDA restrictions. Since 1977, men who have had sex with other men have not been allowed to donate blood in the United States. A new proposed guideline
might finally lift this ban - but with restrictions. Gay and bisexual
men would be allowed to donate blood, but only if they haven't had sex
with another man in the last 12 months. The parody - Sad Studs -
has been watched more than 200,000 times on YouTube, and Wilson is
asking for watchers to tell the FDA what they think of the restriction. Produced by Elena Boffetta