You’ll Have to Pay in Blood. The Red Cross teamed up with “Peanuts” for an April blood drive, and a T-shirt promoting the campaign has become an unexpectedly hot commodity online.

For decades now, gay men have been barred from giving blood. In 2015, what had been a lifetime ban was loosened, such that gay men could be donors if they’d abstained from sex for at least a ...

Change coming to more blood banks The United Kingdom and Canada had adopted more inclusive donor policies without a problem. In the US, the Red Cross is not the first blood bank to make the change.