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irisblue

(37,414 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:41 PM 4 hrs ago

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Bisexual & Lesbian Women from the 80s & 90s were you ever a Blood Sister?

Blood sisters were lesbians who in the early years of the AIDs donated blood, in hopes for brothers we could stop the depopulation of gay men

Not with acknowledge that homophobia took an entire generation on pan & gay & bisexual men into invisibility, lesbians, bisexual & pan women were not a thought.

[I am NOT ignoring transgender people. At that time I did not have the words or culture to use them]

https://diva-magazine.com/2024/02/08/the-blood-sisters/

It was a long time ago & now is far away.

I donated regularly. I hope it helped

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Bisexual & Lesbian Women from the 80s & 90s were you ever a Blood Sister? (Original Post) irisblue 4 hrs ago OP

Old gay man here. Munu 4 hrs ago #1

Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic irisblue 4 hrs ago #2

Munu

(199 posts)

1. Old gay man here.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:47 PM

4 hrs ago

I remember that. Haven't thought about it in years.

You were great.

irisblue

(37,414 posts)

2. Thank you . I was a closted dyke working in the early days of that pandemic

Reply to Munu (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:51 PM

4 hrs ago

Brother mine hugs back at you🫂

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