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Israel will now let gay men donate blood

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 23, 2021

Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood. Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex relations over the […]

Dr. Michelle Roland (left) with patients at the Maipelo Free Clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2019. (RICHARD MILES)
Posted inHealth

Doctor uses traumatic lessons from AIDS pandemic to fight coronavirus

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 7, 2020April 8, 2020
At the AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 15, 2018, (from left) Sandy Kovtun, Nita Juelich, Wilma Bass and Vivienne Leibowich (Photo/Courtesy Sandy Kovtun)
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Walking for a good cause in S.F. — at age 99

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 29, 2018
Alfred Flechtheim in Berlin, 1928. (Photo/Atelier Baruck)
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Uncle Alfred: ‘Jewish, Gay & Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 10, 2018August 10, 2018

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