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Fresh off a new album, "A Quien Quiera Escuchar," the
43-year-old Martin said he relishes getting in front of a crowd
to talk about children forced into prostitution and pornography.
"Not only in Puerto Rico, all over the world, here in the United
States, huge numbers, when it comes to kids that are becoming
slaves," Martin told Reuters in an interview this week.
The "Livin' la Vida Loca" singer opened a center in Puerto Rico
last year to combat oppression against children.
His other big cause, he said, is the "fight of my community, the
LGBT community, it's something that I won't get tired of."
Martin, father of twin boys born via surrogate, expressed his
disappointment on social media and joined Elton John's campaign
in boycotting Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and
Stefano Gabbana after Dolce described children born to gay
couples through fertility treatment as "synthetic."
Martin declined to discuss further the Dolce & Gabbana
controversy.
(Reporting by Norma Galeana; Writing by Mary Milliken; Editing
by David Gregorio)
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