Editor’s note: The Washington Blade published a Spanish version of this story on July 13. Alan Daniel Alcántar Velázquez and Leonardo Daniel Vela Soria have known since they married more than three and a half years ago that they wanted to grow not only as a couple, but also as a family.
They wanted to give a child a chance to live outside of an orphanage and wanted to prove themselves as parents. The process for gay couples to adopt in Mexico, especially in the southern state of Guanajuato where they live, however, remains an elusive right, as is the case with marriage equality.
Mexico currently allows same-sex couples to have a civil marriage because the country’s Supreme Court in January 2017 issued a ruling that gave them the right to do