Blood Services in a gay bar

[queerasmoi]

To: Canadian Blood Services

Comments

For the love of all things rational...

[tyresias]

I really wish you were writing a joke entry.

*sigh*

Good on you though, I hope others who had your experience are taking the same time to do it. They likely need to hear it a couple times before it sinks in.

Re: For the love of all things rational...

[queerasmoi]

Yeah. I know that I couldn't have reasonably expected them to actually take me as a donor, knowing their history, but it was just ludicrous peeing in a gay bar's restroom stall and seeing this ad staring me down.

My guess is that the agency placing the restroom ads just randomly assigned this one to the bar.

[splinterjete]

nice work - good points. i hope xwest publishes it.

[queerasmoi]

I wrote the letter originally just to blood services, and then I realized it would have more impact on both fronts to spread it around :)

[neurotic_potato]

When placing ads on the zoom network you get a much cheaper rate by just saying "put it in bars" rather than paying to select specific bars.

But even that being said bars aren't the best places to get donors if it is gay or not considering the activities that take place. Would have been more advertising buck for their dollar to go into restaurants.

[queerasmoi]

Interesting to know.

That being said, when it comes to straight bars, Blood Services would happily take patrons who have unprotected sex nightly with a different person, as long as they are of the opposite sex.

[neurotic_potato]

Yep, which is completely effed.