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.