Homosexuality Legalization Urged

Dozens of people marched through downtown San Juan, Puerto Rico, to demand that lawmakers legalize homosexuality in the U.S. territory. Waving flags emblazoned with the gay-rights rainbow symbol, the protesters walked through the Condado tourist district to a rally in Luis Munoz Rivera Park. There, speakers decried the law that makes sex between people of the same gender a crime punishable by 10 years in prison. No one has ever been charged under the law, and prosecutors recently refused to arrest a lesbian pastor who offered herself as a test case. But homosexuals complain that the law encourages prejudice against them. Organizers called the event the “Decade of Reclaiming the Streets with Pride March.” It was the 10th annual gay rights march in San Juan.