REPRO FREE. 13/05/2019. Pictured speaking, Lord Mayor Cllr Mick Finn, at the Launch of the Cork LGBTI+ Awareness Week, “Allies for Inclusion”, at City Hall, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan. 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.