With October right around the corner, many are gearing up to see the next installment of Lionsgate’s Saw Franchise, “Jigsaw,” coming to theaters Oct. 27.

Some of a dead gay teen's organs were not accepted for donation, thanks to a longstanding policy by the Food and Drug Administration barring certain tissue donations from men who have sex with men.

As hundreds lined up to give blood in response to Sunday morning’s Pulse nightclub shooting, they discovered that the FDA’s rules governing blood donations from gay men are still in effect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington museum will exhibit a sculpture that uses the blood of nine gay, bisexual and transgender men to protest the federal ban on blood donations from men who have sex with other men.

Rep Mike Honda (D-Calif) introduced legislation to loosen the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.

The possible decriminalization of marijuana in Wilton Manors won’t result in much of a savings in police time. That’s according to a report issued by the Wilton Manors Police Department.

U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, and Tom Harkin, U.S. Congressman Mike Quigley, and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee – all Democrats – are the sponsoring signatories on a letter signed by 80 Democratic members of Congress calling for the full repeal of the ban on gay men donating blood.

(CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has lifted its lifetime ban on accepting blood donations from men who have had sex with men.

WASHINGTON — Government health advisers have concerns about lifting the nation's 31-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, despite growing pressure from gay rights advocates, medical experts and blood banks.

(CNN) -- Gay men who've abstained from sex for one year would be able to donate blood in 2015, ending a lifetime ban for the gay community, under a proposed FDA policy change unveiled Tuesday.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to relax restrictions on how gay men donate blood.

Members of the U.S. Congress are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to update its policy regarding gay men donating blood.

Michael Rajner began donating blood in high school.

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U.S. Congresswoman Val Demings is introducing a bill that lifts the ban on gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people from donating blood.

PARIS (AP) — France will end its ban on blood donations by gay men, its health minister said Wednesday, calling the move the end "of a taboo and discrimination."

An LGBT event was canceled due to Taiwan wanting its name dropped from it, and Joe Locke criticized Isle Of Man for banning gay men from donating blood.

Florida Representative Shevrin Jones is having a tough go of it lately.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa mom is speaking out against the Food and Drug Administration's ban on donations of some tissue from gay men after her son died and some of his organs were rejected.

(WB) Israel on Thursday announced it will allow men who have sex with men to donate blood without restrictions.

On December 15, 80 members of the United States Senate and Congress sent a letter to the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), urging it to end the lifetime ban which prevents men who have sex with men from donating blood. The ban, which the Federal Drug Administration enforced in 1983, prohibits any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 from donating blood. Groups like the Los Angeles LGBT Center applaud the action.

A coalition is building to put pressure on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to lift its ban on sexually active men donating blood.

With the nation’s blood supply at dangerously low levels, calls to ease restrictions on gay and bisexual men have increased.

(EDGE) A lifetime ban on gay men donating blood that was created in the UK during the '80s AIDS crisis is about to be lifted, reports the BBC.

In the wake of this weekend’s mass shooting in Orlando that took the lives of 49 people and injured at least 53 others, there is an urgent need for blood donors to volunteer.

A federal panel voted, on Nov. 13, to partially lift a 31-year ban on accepting blood donations from gay and bisexual men. The advisory panel to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability examined data and listened to testimony from critics of the ban, including the American Civil Liberties Union.

(CNN) -- Did pop star Elton John get punked?

(OOM) HRC blasted President Trump’s decision to appoint anti-LGBTQ activist Roger Severino to lead the division charged with enforcing civil rights law at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa's Dennis R. Neill Equality Center and the Oklahoma Blood Institute are teaming up for Friday's National Gay Men's Blood Drive.

Twitter will no longer host blood drives at its headquarters over the Federal Drug Administration's decades-old ban that prohibits gay and bisexual men from donating blood, the International Business Times reports.