Medical ethics

My social issue project was over the Red Cross and many other blood blanks that deny bisexual and homosexual men from donating blood. This is a global issue that doesn’t only occur in the United States. Recently though they have allowed gay and bisexual men to donate blood but only after being celibate for 365 days (a year). This is unethical because it is denying blood to be donated to those in need simply on discrimination. They do not require so much from heterosexual people which is also discriminatory. This was a very important issue seeing that I am a gay male and would be devastated if I was not able to donate blood to a loved one simply because of who I am attracted too. It was a bit difficult for me to figure out what exactly I wanted to create in order to voice my thoughts on the issue. I had plenty rough drafts and sketches of what I wanted to do but I decided to be more direct and go with the image of a nurse stopping a gay couple from donating blood and creating signs in the background to really make the viewer feel their emotions. I believe the artwork came out pretty good and used different types of media such as watercolor, spray paint, markers, acrylic paint, and pens. I decided to use the different colors of the rainbow flag in order to represent the gay community and used a dark gloomy sky to contrast the vibrant colors to represent happiness being overshadowed by negative energy. I also used red paint for the text in order to represent blood and give it a darker look.