Have a look at the LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project’s events during February. Email joe@hereni.org or maryellen@hereni.org for more information. The post February is LGBT+ History Month appeared first on HERe NI ..read more

Would you like to work for us?  We are recruiting for a Policy Development Officer.  Please have a look at the flyer and email Cara for an application pack at cara.mccann@hereni.org……….   The post We Are Recruiting appeared first on HERe NI ..read more

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We began our journey to become a family five years ago.  At first we began exploring surrogacy as an option and quickly moved on as the costs were mounting and there was a lot of risk involved in Northern Ireland with the surrogate changing their mind at the last minute.  We explored fostering and were very interested in this as an option but with the placement of a child not being permanent it was hard to see us coping when the day came to let the child go back to their birth parents.  Adoption seemed to be the best option for us and so we made a few enquiries.  We decided to adopt through th ..read more

My name is Claire, I met my wife Donna in May 2013 and we travelled to New York to get married in October 2016. From the early days of our relationship we both knew we wanted children, indeed this was one of the main reasons we decided to get married. The safety and security provided through marriage was something we had always wanted for any future family we would have. When it came to making plans for growing our family, we discussed a number of options including fertility, however our hearts always came back to adoption. We knew we could provide a loving home for any child, however doin ..read more

In 2017 we adopted our two daughters, then age 3 and 4.  We always knew we wanted to be parents but as a same sex couple adoption was not an option prior to 2013.  After a series of fertility treatments at a local clinic, which were ultimately unsuccessful, we were feeling a little lost and emotionally bruised to say the least.  A change in the law now opened up adoption to us and after an initial chat with Belfast Trust we decided to apply to adopt.  We were worried that us being a same sex couple might be an issue as we didn’t know any other same sex couples at that time who had adopted ..read more

Here NI has prepared a response to the “Proposals for the Future Model of Breast Assessment Services for the Population of Northern Ireland.” Download the response (PDF) > We welcome this consultation process, and the attempts made by the Department to maximise engagement. The Northern Ireland Sexual Orientation Strategy and Action Plan (SOSAP) was originally proposed by OFMdFM during direct rule in 2005. However, upon devolution this draft strategy was shelved until 2012 when it was announced through the draft ‘Strategy for Cohesion Sharing and Integration’ that a new strategy would ..read more

The Wow Group will next meet on Wednesday 1st of July at 7pm for a Story-telling session – details below: Some info on this workshop: Dr Clodagh Harvey is a specialist on the Irish storytelling tradition who has conducted research among storytellers all over Ireland. In this informal workshop she will talk about the two main branches of the storytelling tradition, the kinds of stories associated with each as well as assumptions about gender roles within the tradition. She will share some of her personal experiences with storytellers as well as her favourite stories, and as a group we will look ..read more

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