Tag Archives: Christine Quinn

NYC Adds Two More Gays To City Council (And They’re NOT From Manhattan)

Two of the three openly gay city council candidates from Queens won yesterday’s Democratic primary and are expected to coast to November victories in their overwhelmingly Dem districts. Openly gay candidates made gains in local New York City primary elections on Tuesday, as Daniel Drumm and James Van Bramer [JMG: pictured], both from Queens, each won their district’s Democratic nomination …

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Protesters Decry NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn Outside Debate

Protesters waved anti-Christine Quinn signs outside of an event where the openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker debated two other candidates for her seat. While City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s campaign experience showed in a debate among three of the Democrats vying for her seat, it was Maria Passannante-Derr who brought the heat to the August 13 event. “You’re the …

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NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn: New York Marriage Equality “Up In The Air”

Yesterday NYC’s openly lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn expressed doubts that marriage equality will come to New York this year. “I don’t know if we’re going to win this year,” Quinn said in opening remarks to the city council’s annual gay pride celebration, which she hosted. “But I do know we’re incredibly close.” That assessment sounded decidedly less optimistic …

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HomoQuotable – Christine Quinn

“Today, after meeting with Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and members of the State Senate, I am very optimistic that we will see equal rights come to the State of New York very soon. Our state has long been a moving force in fights for equal rights, and this crucial bill keeps us at the forefront of this movement. “During these …

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Bloomberg, Quinn Call On Feds To Count Married Gays In 2010 Census

At Monday’s Task Force awards event, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn spoke quite a bit about the how the 2010 census will require legally married gay couples to lie about their status. Yesterday she and her boss released a letter to the feds decrying the policy. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council speaker are urging federal census officials to …

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National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s 2009 New York Leadership Awards

Last night my loyal companion Aaron and I attended the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s annual New York Leadership Awards, where San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and designer John Bartlett were recognized for their contributions to the LGBT movement. Here’s a quick slideshow of the event; I’ll add more thoughts on the evening later today. Full screen versions of …

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NYC: City Hall To Open For Inauguration

If you can’t get your broke ass down to DC, the New York City Council will open City Hall to the public to show Barack Obama’s inauguration on big screen TVs. Via emailed press release: Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and the New York City Council announce that City Hall will open its doors to …

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Hundreds Turn Out At Brooklyn Vigil For Jose Sucuzhanay, Murdered Victim Of Anti-Latino, Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out yesterday for the memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the Ecuadorian immigrant who was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat last week because his attackers thought he and his brother were homosexuals. The event was covered by over a dozen television crews from local, national, and Hispanic news channels, as well as print …

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Anti-Gay Hate Crime In Brooklyn?

I got several emails from NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office this morning, the last of which said: I was outraged to learn this morning that two men were assaulted at Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, and especially horrified to learn that anti-LGBT and anti-Latino slurs were used by one or more of the assailants – raising this …

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Will Gov. Paterson Appoint An Openly Gay Replacement For Hillary Clinton?

Politicos are speculating that among the candidates to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate are two openly gay NYC politicians: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Daniel O’Donnell (left), who represents the the Upper West Side in the state Assembly. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, however, is considered the leading contender. There has never been an openly gay U.S. Senator. Openly …

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NYC Council Approves Term Limits Repeal

Late yesterday afternoon the New York City Council voted to repeal term limits, all but guaranteeing a third mayoral term for Michael Bloomberg. After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing …

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Quinn Flip-Flops On Term Limits

Christin Quinn, December 2007: “I am today taking a firm and final position. I will not support the repeal or change of term limits through any mechanism, and I will oppose aggressively any attempt by anyone to make any changes in the term limits law. The voters have made their will very, very clear.” Christine Quinn, October 2008: “In difficult …

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Bloomberg’s Third Term Now More Likely

Billionaire cosmetics king Ronald Lauder, the guy who in 1993 funded the successful push for term limits for all of Gotham’s elected officials, has done an about face and is now backing the movement to allow Michael Bloomberg a third term as mayor. “I’ve been reading that Mayor Bloomberg might be interested in serving a third term,” the cosmetics heir …

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Feds Indict Staffers, Christine Quinn Hires Criminal Defense Lawyer

Two city council staffers were indicted by the feds yesterday for embezzlement and Speaker Christine Quinn, the most powerful openly gay politician in NYC, has hired a criminal defense attorney for herself. The indictment Wednesday of two City Council staffers on charges of stealing $145,000 in a complex money-laundering scheme could be just the beginning, investigators warned. The legal action …

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Quinn’s Star Dims

After last week’s “Slushgate” revelation that her office had been funneling millions in city funds into sham organizations, openly lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is now facing calls for her resignation. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn burned up the phone lines over the weekend, trying to calm an uprising by rank-and-file Council members infuriated by the financial …

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NYC Speaker Quinn In Financial Scandal

The New York Post says the office of New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has been funneling money into sham organizations in order to later use the funds to reward those faithful to her. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office hid millions of taxpayer dollars by allocating grants to phantom organizations as a way of holding the funds to …

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NYC Hospitals Test 134,000 For HIV

In a letter to the New York Times, City Council Speaker Christin Quinn announced that an additional $5.6M funding for rapid HIV tests has allowed the city’s hospitals to test almost 134,000 patients over the last year. Quinn: “The only way to truly combat this crisis is to ensure that all New Yorkers take a simple first step to learn …

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Manhattan Monday

– The nine day old Broadway strike will continue though the Thanksgiving weekend as negotiations were broken off again on Saturday. No new talks are scheduled. Analysts are now describing the strike as a “disaster” for holiday tourism. Unrelated: the vanity plate on this car parked in front of my building. – The feds have approved $1.3B for the construction …

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St. Patrick’s Gay

NYC’s second-in-command, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is flying to Ireland next week to march in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, in protest of the continuing ban on gays from New York’s parade. The NYC parade is the world’s largest, with 150,000 marchers and millions of viewers. The parade’s organizers, the Catholic Church-run Ancient Order of Hibernians, successfully went to …

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HomoQuotable – Christine Quinn

“I think that the New York City electorate will always elect the person they feel most connected to and the person they think is most competent and effective.” – Christine Quinn, the openly gay Speaker of the New York City council, when asked if NYC is ready for a gay mayor. Quinn is high on the short list of probable …

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