CT Fertility gay couple, Farid Ali Lancheros and George Constantinou are featured in an 
article published by El Nuevo Herald, Miami's largest spanish written newspaper, entitled "Casamiento e hijos biológicos para pareja gay hispana de EEUU" (Marriage and biological children for hispanic gay couple in the United States). The article follows the couples' personal journey becoming parents, starting with finding a surrogate and egg donor, then working with CT Fertility to fertilize and implant their embryos within their surrogate.
The article also talks in more general terms about the increasing number of Latin American gay couples who are starting families with the assistance of a gestational surrogate and egg donor in the United States; despite the fact that gays having families may still be perceived negatively by some back in their native countries, which in Farid's case is Colombia.
See below for translated excerpts from the article published in El Nuevo Heraldo on September 12, 2011:
Farid and George..." hope to lead a normal life, be legally married and have biological children. A life that they probably wouldn't be able to lead, according to them, back in Latin America."
"Everything is possible in life, said Lancheros. However my aunts are having a hard time accepting what we're doing. In Latin America, people are not as open about such things. I think however that we can change perceptions."
"If they were living in Colombia it would probably have been much more complicated for Lancheros and Constantinou to have kids, because like in many Latin American countries, there is still much prejudice against homosexuals", said Marcela Sanchez, director of the LGBT organization Colombia Diversa based in Bogota.
"People mistakenly believe that men cannot have a maternal instinct. It is hard for some to believe that a man would want to become a father and also be with another man," Sanchez said. "This is beyond the scope of thinking of many Latin Americans."
See below excerpts from the original article "Casamiento e hijos biológicos para pareja gay hispana de EEUU" published in El Nuevo Heraldo on September 12, 2011:
Farid y George..."esperan hacer una vida normal, con un matrimonio legalmente constituido e hijos biológicos. Una vida que probablemente no podrían hacer en Latinoamérica, según ellos."
"Todo es posible en esta vida", dijo Lancheros. "Pero mis tías aún no lo acaban de entender. En Latinoamérica la gente no es tan abierta de mente. Yo creo que podemos cambiar percepciones".
"De vivir en Colombia, a Lancheros y Constantinou probablemente les resultaría más complicado tener hijos porque allí, como en muchos países latinoamericanos, "todavía hay mucho perjuicio" hacia los homosexuales, dijo Marcela Sánchez, directora de la organización Colombia Diversa, con sede en Bogotá.
"La gente sigue todavía creyendo erróneamente en el instinto materno y, cree que eso se da por naturaleza. Para los hombres está todavía mucho más alejada la posibilidad de que se vea como algo normal y natural de los seres humanos, primero, el hecho de querer ser padre y, segundo, querer serlo con otro hombre", dijo Sánchez. "Eso está más allá de los horizontes que, en realidad, en Latinoamérica son bastante limitados".
