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Cole Williams

Cole is a Registered Nurse in Massachusetts, and graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he studied Nursing and Political Science. He is the founder of Pride and Plasma, an organization that fights to ensure equality for the LGBTQ+ community in transfusion and transplantation medicine.

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Cole's Latest Articles

After more than three decades, queer men will finally be able to donate their tissue

The little-known FDA policy caused thousands of members of our community to be denied their dying wishes.

The FDA’s ban on tissue donations from queer men is outdated and harmful [COMMENTARY]

You can’t choose to delay your own death for five years and remain celibate during that time, nor should you have to.

We shouldn’t have to fight this hard to do something as selfless as giving blood

The FDA just (FINALLY!) updated their blood donation guidelines to be more inclusive...but we still have further to go.

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