The theme for this year’s Cork LGBTI+ Awareness Week is Allies for Inclusion and will be launched in Cork City Hall by Lord Mayor Cllr Mick Finn on Monday May 13th , an occasion fixed now in the civic calendar which will see the Rainbow Flag raised by the city for the fifth successive year and allies of the LGBTI Inter-Agency process honoured for their support.
On this the 9th LGBTI+ Awareness Week the Cork LGBTI Inter-Agency group have reflected on the individual and organisational champions who have helped the Inter-Agency process and have helped us create a week which demonstrates very visibly that it is the job of the city, its public agencies, communities and civic leaders to challenge homophobia and transphobia.
7 individual champions will be honoured as well as 8 Public Service Champions, 6 community Champions and one Religious Faith Champion.
The role that all of these has played in supporting the LGBTI Inter-Agency process has been so important, and in part why as a city we are now opening our 9th Awareness Week – the only such event anywhere in Ireland which commands the support of the city, its public agencies, communities and increasingly some faith communities.
