San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives Executive Director Clair Farley, a trans woman who is also a mayoral adviser, told the B.A.R. Kavanagh added in an emailed statement to the Bay Area Reporter that he is "especially pleased that our friends in our sister city San Francisco" will also be raising the flag so that together the two cities will be "ushering in IDAHOBIT Day and committing ourselves to challenge prejudice and discrimination around sexual orientation, gender identity and all forms of intolerance and hatred." "I'm delighted to raise this progressive intersectional flag over Cork, signifying our desire to be inclusive of the many diversities within the LGBTQI+ community," stated Councillor Joe Kavanagh, whose one-year term as the Lord Mayor of Cork City Council will come to an end in June. (To learn more about the confab being hosted by France, click here. Running from Sunday through Saturday, May 22, which is observed as Harvey Milk Day in California in honor of the late gay San Francisco supervisor, Cork's LGBTQI+ Awareness Week this year will feature a weeklong special rainbow-themed billboard campaign dubbed "We Are Cork," a book club, online photo exhibit, and participation in the UNESCO Virtual Global Conference Promoting the Rights and Inclusion of LGBTI Youth.
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in Ireland - as the city hosts a weeklong series of events timed to the annual global LGBTQ observance. Cork officials will raise their version of the flag at the same time - 6 p.m. to raise the specially designed Progress flag that Cork officials had made and priority mailed to their American counterparts earlier this week. With San Francisco City Hall still closed due to the COVID pandemic, a few staff from the Mayor's Office of Protocol will gather Sunday at 10 a.m.
The flag-raisings will take place prior to the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, which is observed May 17 in scores of countries around the globe. For the sister cities since 1984, it is the first time that version of the Pride flag will fly at their city halls.Īnd it is also the first time either municipality has worked in tandem with another city to simultaneously raise the LGBTQ symbol at its city hall. San Francisco and Cork, Ireland officials will raise twinned versions of the Progress pride flag at their city halls this Sunday, May 16, in observance of an international day that raises awareness about LGBTQ issues.