Holding Our Own

Hello HOO People Yes, Yes, Yes!! Its that time of month again where we gather together in the spirit of warmly, holding ourselves and our children. Creating a space to breathe out and take a load off! Welcome back this time it is Wowweeeeee MAY!!!! This year is galloping ahead and I hope you are [...]

Hi all Time for a catch up? Time to see how we are all doing, catch up, shoot the breeze - it is time to plan for the year ahead.   I wanted to make note: Julia Groeneweg who is running our meet ups in Wellington has been amazing on our Face Book and we [...]

After a brilliant Pride Parade, warmly welcomed by Rainbow Youth, a wonderful support to Holding our Own. HOO had a felt proud walking with Rainbow Youth who are just awesome, THANKS RY for your support and inclusion you rock! What a great Pride bigger, bolder, brighter and better than ever, it was great!!     [...]

Hello  Holding Our Own allies !! Well, it is that time of year again and we are meeting to represent and support our children in the LGBTQAI community. While our children are blessed enough to have the support they do, we recognise the ongoing journey  and need for further change both in our country and [...]

  NB  there WILL NOT be a group on the 1st of February it will be held on the second Wednesday 8Th Of February at Rainbow Youth  6:30 – 8pm  We will get back, catch up have a cuppa and chat about Pride which is Auckland Pride Parade on Saturday 25th February on Ponsonby Road [...]

Hi all I know this is short notice but i have just returned and started recovering from an exhausting trip. I just wanted to say that WEDNESDAY is on and we have a confirmed guest speaker - Karen Ritchie Karen Ritchie Karen worked with the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective and was a driving force behind [...]

    Hi all I am terribly sorry to cancel our October meeting but i will not be available due to my travels to South Africa. I have however secured a wonderfully knowledgeable and very much loved member of our LGBT community. She is awesome and makes things happen she is a mum for the [...]

This month after a lovely brainstorm, we are changing things up a bit!!  We have some members of the LGBTQ community joining us for chat; they will share their experiences of being part of the LGBT community in NZ.  It might be nice to understand the good, the positive and the challenging aspects of being [...]

Always Pflag - great site, great info www.pflag.org A Note to My Kid  - www.anotetomykid.org/    awesome responses, fab insights David Leviathan on LGBTQ fiction for young adults - New York writer David Leviathan talks about LGBTQ young adult fiction since his first book Boy Meets Boy 13 years ago. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201812042/david-levithan-lgbt-fiction Takatapui, part of the whanau   -  https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/assets/ResourceFinder/takatapui.pdf Thanks Julia they are great especially [...]

  I am hugely excited to share, the early baby steps start to, our new sister group of HOO Wellington!  Yay and congrats to Julia and Paul who have stepped up and taken on the role of support facilitators in Wellington, connecting our parents and starting the conversation of supporting and loving our LGBTQ children [...]