'At this point, I had started having sex with men,' he explained.

But when he went to the clinic a third time, he was turned away. 'He used to always give blood when I was a child, and I thought that was such a heroic thing for him to do.'Īs a young adult, Hamilton gave blood not once, but twice. 'I always looked up to my father,' Hamilton told CTV News. Dale Hamilton has wanted to donate blood his entire life.