Lifting a ban on blood donations from gay men would increase the amount of available blood by hundreds of thousands of pints (liters) each year and save more than a million lives a year, a California study showed on Friday.

After 10 years and two kids together, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka tied the knot Saturday. "We happily confirm that Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka were married in Italy in an intimate ceremony surrounded by their close friends and family," Harris's representative tells PEOPLE.

The federal court of appeals upheld lower court decisions in Madison and Indiana and helps set up an eventual ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the historic question.

A bill seeking to have foreign gay people stoned to death in public in Kenya is now before the National Assembly through a petition by a political party. The draft bill has proposed that a foreigner who commits a homosexual act be stoned in public, while Kenyan nationals found guilty will be jailed for life.

The federal appeals panel will decide on lower court rulings striking down bans in Mich., Ohio, Tenn., Ky.

Father and son had always been close, from the moment Tim Schaefer was born, six weeks premature, with blood poisoning, a weak heart and lungs, and a doctor who thought he would not make it through the night. His father, the Rev. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist minister, thought of his eldest son as a miracle child, saved by some combination of medicine and prayer, saved for something special.

Warns of 'exploding epidemics' of HIV among gay men. The World Health Organization has suggested for the first time that all men who have sex with men should take antiretroviral medicine, warning that HIV infection rates among gay men are exploding around the world.

For San Francisco Pride, one Burger King location decided to serve something special to its customers. A video uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday shows diners given the option of ordering regular Whoppers or a new item called the Proud Whopper.

Russian social media users are campaigning against the US singer Demi Lovato after her concert at New York's gay pride event on Sunday featured a controversial use of an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Burger King has concocted yet another way to have it your way: a gay pride burger. The Proud Whopper, as it's called, comes wrapped in a rainbow colored wrapper with this inscription: "We are all the same inside." It will be sold through Thursday at one Burger King restaurant on San Francisco's Market Street, that was at the heart of the route for last weekend's 44th annual San Francisco Pride Celebration & Parade.

A rare glimpse into the life of gay couples decades ago.

“Did we have a lot of people in the closet in the administration?” says one former senior official in the Bush White House whose office included at least three gay staffers. “I used to say we had an entire warehouse.”

How the son of a macho farmer grew up to become a beloved nurse—and changed many of her compatriots’ perceptions about sexuality.

Lawmakers in Luxembourg, the least populated European country, approved same-sex marriage on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The country, whose prime minister is openly gay, will also allow people of the same sex to adopt children.

Hillary Clinton didn't refrain from supporting same-sex marriage for political reasons—before last year, she earnestly believed that marriage equality should be denied to gays and lesbians. That's the story the 66-year-old Democrat settled on when NPR host Terry Gross pressed her on her views.

Slovakia's parliament has amended its constitution to define marriage as a union between man and woman, effectively closing the door to same-sex marriage and stirring protest among rights groups.

The parliament of Slovakia adopted a constitutional amendment prohibiting legal recognition of same-sex couples on Wednesday.

The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.

A federal judge in Harrisburg, Pa., has struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage, the second such ruling this week by a federal court and the 14th consecutive ruling in favor of marriage equality. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III issued the ruling in a case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and and the ACLU of Pennsylvania, on behalf on a widow, 11 same-sex couples, and one of the couples’ two teenage daughters, calling them “courageous.”

What’s up with even red state judges backing same-sex marriage? The Constitution and Anthony Kennedy, basically. But watch those appeals.