
Gay activists are stepping up their calls for the federal government to change its blood-donation policy and permit gay men give blood under some circumstances.
A new TV commercial features a good-looking young woman on a beach vacation lounging next to a good-looking young man. He bemoans the glare on his iPad and she fills him in on the Kindle Paperwhite's sun-friendly screen.

The interior minister of Spain says he's against same-sex marriage because it threatens the fate of the human species.
Gay advocacy group GLAAD says Madonna will present CNN's Anderson Cooper with an award for openly gay media professionals.
Tens of thousands of Georgians rallied in the capital Sunday as the ex-Soviet state's richest man launched his bid to oust President Mikheil Saakashvili's governing party at elections later this year.
Islamic leaders are outraged at the "cultural terrorism" they say the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan has promoted with a gay pride celebration.
"To the proponents of the radical homosexual agenda, tolerance only goes one way. We must tolerate them, or else," writes Chris Wysocki at Right Wing News.
A gay rights legal group has taken a second aim at the federal law that backs the traditional definition of marriage in federal programs and protects states from being forced to recognize other states' gay marriages.

Less than halfway through his first term, President Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history.