The gay rights group Rainbow Wellington is taking the New Zealand Blood Service to the Human Rights Commission over the restrictions on sexually active homosexual men giving blood. Frankly, I think this is a stupid waste of the scarce resources of the New Zealand Blood Service, who can ill afford HRC lawyers. It is an [...]

USA Today carries a fascinating article on child-rearing gay couples drawn from a newly published book by Abbie Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The book is entitled Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle. Goldberg contends that “The sexual orientation of a parent [...]

In a classical example of an attempt at diversion of media attention, Chris Carter pulls the sexuality card. He accuses the media of making a fuss about the costs of his travel because he is gay and takes his (male) partner with him on his travels. Even Phil Goff thinks he is full of nonsense. [...]

Chuck Bird suggested that I hold forth my opinion of the proposed new deferral periods for Blood Donors that Stephen Franks has recently blogged about. A deferral period is how long you have to wait between doing something that might infect your blood and actually donating blood. For instance, the deferral period for using a [...]