Famed Mexican Gay Couple Helps Blaze Adoption Trail Yemeli Ortega Luyando - Agence-France Presse
go to original May 8, 2013

La otra familia; son la primera pareja del mismo sexo en adoptar (ElUniversalTV)

They are perhaps Mexico's best-known gay couple: one a soap opera actor, the other a theater producer. They were happy enough just being together, until things got better and they could wed.

And while it has not been easy, even though they had the law on their side, now Felipe Najera and Jaime Morales are the predominantly Catholic country's first same-sex couple to be able to adopt a child through a public institution - though others have adopted through private agencies. Their daughter Alejandra is a year-and-a-half old.

The sprawling metropolis of Mexico City legalized gay marriage in 2009, although the rest of the country has not yet done so.

Morales, a 55-year-old architect turned theater producer, said when he and Najera saw all the work that lawmakers put into getting the law passed, they decided to get married and did so in 2010.

"It was not something we needed. We were already an established couple. But we think that this struggle had to be reflected in an event," said Morales, who has been with 47-year-old Najera, a regular in the showbiz tabloid press, for 13 years.

But starting a family was not easy, even though the law says gay couples can adopt children.

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