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	<title>The LGBT Cancer Project  --      Out With Cancer</title>
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		<title>LGBT cancer survivors find peer support at Out With Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LGBT cancer survivors find peer support on http://www.outwithcancer.org . Out With
Cancer&#8217;s online support community is password protected, open 24/7, and  free.
Professionally managed by oncology social workers. Now entering it&#8217;s  fifth year, many
hundreds of cancer survivor&#8217;s from our community have found health tips,  hope and new
friends in their efforts to live longer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visitation Rights for Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out With Cancer helped make visitation rights for all patients and their loved ones a right. We were one of several LGBT focused nonprofit organizations fighting to change hospital policies that excluded  same sex partners from the same visitation rights as married heterosexual couples.  On April 15, 2010, the President  issued a Presidential memorandum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS Votes 9-6 to continue Gay Blood Donation Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HHS Committee voting at 2:40PM 6 voting yes to repeal ban.  9  voting no.  Gay Blood Donation Ban is NOT repealed.
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		<title>Watch the HHS discuss the Gay Blood Donation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the HHS Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability  discuss the Gay Blood Donation Ban  http://hhs.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&#38;event_id=5
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		<title>Kerry Demands Blood Ban Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A June 9 letter to the chair of the HHS Advisory  Committee on Blood Safety and Availability from Sen. Kerry and Rep. Mike  Quigley, Democrat of Illinois, was co-signed by thirty-three  representatives and nine senators. &#8220;We join with medical experts at the  American Red Cross, America’s Blood Centers, AABB, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Marker on US passports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LGBT Cancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning today, when a passport applicant presents a doctor&#8217;s   certification that he or she has undergone treatment for gender   transition, their passport will be updated to accurately reflect their   sex.  Sex reassignment  surgery is no longer required to change the  gender on an  American passport. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Gay Blood Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and  Human Services (HHS) will review the FDA policy on Wed, June 9, that bans any man  who has ever sex with a man from donating blood.  The LGBT Cancer Project &#8211; Out With Cancer has been advocating for repeal of this ban. Representative Quigley  (D-IL) and Senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS Considers lifting Gay Blood Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Department of Health and Human Services Blood Committee will review it&#8217;s policy on banning Gay men from donating blood.
Following up on a March announcement from the Department of Health  and Human Services, the June meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood  Safety and Availability &#8221;will hear presentations and engage in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Ask for Gay Blood Ban Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., didn’t mince words Thursday in calling  for the repeal of the long-standing ban on gay men donating blood.
“Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban,” Kerry said  in Bay Windows, a New England-based gay  and lesbian newspaper.
A letter to the FDA — spearheaded by Kerry and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Blood Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[16 senators called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end  the ban on blood donations by gay men. In a letter to FDA commissioner  Margaret Hamburg on Thursday, the senators called the policy “medically  and scientifically unsound” and called out the double standard placed on  gay men who want [...]]]></description>
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