LGBTI+ Inter-Agency Awareness Week May 16th – 22 nd 2021 The theme for this year’s event was “Intersectionality” and whilst most events were again online, Cork City Council continued to exhibit our support through the Lord Mayor’s online message of support and the raising of the new LGBTI+ Intersectionality and the Rainbow Cities Flag at the City Hall by Lord Mayor Cllr Joe Kavanagh at 6.00 p.m. on Sunday 16 th May 2021 with a simultaneous Flag Raising at 10.00.a.m. (American time) with our twinned City of San Francisco at their City Hall.
Cork City marked international IDAHOBIT Day 2021 by bringing the City Council, public services, community groups and lgbti+ ngos together to challenge homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. As members of the Rainbow Cities Network we had submitted an entry to the shared RCN Photography Exhibition – Intersectionality in the LGBTQ Community and the exhibition was/is available to view across our social media platforms covering LGBTI+ Awareness Week. Annually we raise the Rainbow Flag over the city and across public buildings, parks and community spaces; this year we will raise the Intersectional Rainbow Flag because as Audre Lorde once memorably said .“ there is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives ” Our Notes to Cork 2 “ We Are Cork ” billboard campaign ran throughout LGBTI+ Awareness Week highlighting our intersectionality and diversity. Cork City is also took part in the Rainbow Cities Network - Share the Rainbow initiative. We shared the Intersectional Rainbow Flag with our sister city San Francisco who gifted us with a Rainbow Flag allowing us to become the first city on the island of Ireland to formally raise a Rainbow Flag over a civic and public building. Cork and San Francisco signed a Rainbow Memorandum in 2018 and this continues our tradition of working together on lgbti+ issues. We also raised the European Rainbow Flag – a gift from our sister city Cologne and Pulse of Europe showing our colours for the protection of minorities in Europe, in particular the LGBTI community.
The weeks programme was as follows:
Sunday 16th May 10.15 St Anne’s Shandon will open the week with an IDAHOBIT Day Service Sunday 16 th May: Joint and simultaneous Rainbow Flag Raising in Cork and San Francisco Monday May 17th: Cork City took part in Virtual Global Conference Promoting the Rights and Inclusion of LGBTI Youth , 12pm to 16pm CET Tuesday May 18th 12.30 – 2pm Cork Community Health Network virtual meeting Intersectionality & Community Health Work! Wednesday May 19th – Seeding the County & Cumann na Daoine Youghal Queer Chronicles.
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