This Artist Is Making Work Out of the Literal Blood of LGBTQ People
In 2015, the FDA revised its controversial ban, announcing that gay and bisexual men can donate blood if they abstain from sex with men for a full year—a condition heterosexual donors and LGBTQ women don’t have to meet. Contextualized in a science-centric show that explores how disease affects New York City’s communities, Blood Mirror highlights how “there’s essentially an FDA-imposed quarantine on gay people,” Eagles says. In his artist’s statement for the sculpture, he cites a 2014 UCLA Williams Institute study, which estimated that lifting the ban on men who have sex with men would increase the total annual blood supply in the US by two to four percent, and could be used to help save the lives of more than a million people. New work by Jordan Eagles, based off a 1994 HULK comic called “In the Shadow of AIDS,” and paired with blood from an HIV+ undetectable donor and a donor on PrEP.
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