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Robin Abcarian: Two gay men walk into a Red Cross blood donation center ...

At left, phlebotomist Jingle Bustamante draws blood from Judd Stark during a blood drive at Malibu City Hall.

The American Red Cross had a blood drive at Malibu City Hall the other day. In a first-floor community room, donors lay on gurneys, plastic tubes snaking from their arms, tended by nurses. Afterward, they snacked on mini-Oreos and sipped from tiny juice boxes.

It all seemed very routine.

But this was a totally new experience for Jeremy Walker, 55, and his husband, Judd Stark, 59, gay men who came of age at the frightening dawn of the AIDS era. Together for 30 years, and married for almost 10, they had not

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