People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade along the Central Avenue, in San Jose, Costa Rica June 23, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride on Sunday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country's constitutional court promised same-sex couples the right to marry starting next year.
The court voted last August to legalize gay marriage and said later the ruling would take effect in May 2020, making Costa Rica the first country in socially conservative Central America to recognise that right.
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