Career
McDowall led the campaign to save gay Syrian Jojo Yakub from deportation and the protest and campaign against sexual orientation discrimination on the Isle of Manitoba McDowall petitioned the Scottish Parliament to end the ban on gay men giving in blood in 2008. He managed to secure the backing of Scottish politicians Ross Finnie Managing Successful Programmes, Struan Stevenson Member of the European Parliament and Alyn Smith Member of the European Parliament. The lifetime ban on Master of Science in Management, which stands for, "men who have had sex with men" donating blood was removed and replaced by a policy which permits blood donations if the donor has abstained from sexual contact for 12 months.