STAGE TUBE: Alan Cumming Stand Behind GLAAD and GMHC's Petition for Blood Donation Screening

In the video, stage and screen star Alan Cumming urges viewers to sign GLAAD and GMHC's petition at www.celibacychallenge.com, to pressure the FDA to screen all prospective blood donors based on risk, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Join the fight today!

The FDA recently announced that gay and bisexual men may finally be allowed to donate blood after being banned for life since the '80s - but only if they remain celibate for one year. So straight guys can have safe sex with woman after woman and still donate blood. But gay and bi men who have had safe sex for an entire year - even with a monogamous partner - would still be banned. Sounds like discrimination to us.

Cumming made his professional acting debut as Malcolm in Michael Boyd's production of Macbeth at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in 1985. After working extensively in the Scottish theatre, he made his West End debut in Conquest of the South Pole, which earned him his first Olivier award nomination. He appeared with the RSC, played Romeo for the RNT Studio and earned further Olivier nominations for La Bête and Cabaret. His career-defining Hamlet for the English Touring Theatre earned him huge critical acclaim, a TMA Best Actor award and Shakespeare Globe nomination. He won an Olivier for Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre. In 1998 he made his sensational Broadway debut when Cabaret transferred to NYC, winning him the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World, NY Press, FANY and Public Advocate awards. On TV he currently appears as Eli Gold in "The Good Wife" for which he has been nominated for Emmy, SAG, Satellite and Critics Circle awards.