PARIS, June 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Some 300,000 people attended the Gay Pride parade on Saturday afternoon in Paris, claiming adoption and marriage rights for homosexual couples.

    "Couples and parents: equality now" is the theme of this year's Gay Pride. Alain Piriou, spokesman of the Inter-LGBT association, which is LGBT's main vehicle for speaking with the government for LGBT equal rights and which organizes the Gay Pride parade, calledthe French government to change the law and to authorize marriage and adoption for homosexual couples.

    Some dignitaries, including Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and National secretary of the Green party Yann Wehrling, also called for legislation.

    At 4:00 p.m. (local time), the parade stopped midway to keep three-minute silence dedicated to victims of aids. Enditem