Thought for the Day

A gay Toronto man who concealed his sexual history on a blood donor questionnaire and was sued for negligence by Canadian Blood Services has lost in Ontario Superior Court.

In a decision released Thursday, the court sided with CBS in its suit against Kyle Freeman for "negligent misrepresentation."

The court said Freeman did not have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms defence against the claim of negligence.

The decision essentially upholds the current CBS practice of prohibiting men who have had sex with other men anytime since 1977 from donating blood.

— "Gay Ont. man loses blood donation negligence suit", CBC

Dear Canadian Blood Services,

I'm glad you have lots of other customers.

Juneteenth

I met this interesting woman at the film festival tonight. She's a documentary film maker; she didn't have anything in the show, but she was telling me about a short documentary she made called Juneteenth Community. I hafta confess that I'd not heard of Juneteenth before this year.

I'm thinking of ordering a copy of the DVD.