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Gay rights activists Temistocles Villanueva, 23, center, and Daniel Ramos, 24, left, celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage, at the capital's local assembly Mexico City's local assembly, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Mexico's capital's lawmakers made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. Villanueva holds a sign depicting Mexico's former President Benito Juarez that reads in Spanish: ' He respected other people's rights'.