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«When I'm elected mayor, I'll be the first woman and first openly gay mayor of the city of New York.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.
Will that nation of yours include Houston with it's gay democratic female mayor and some of the other big cities that voted for Bill White in the last election?
The second paragraph of the WSJ story states, «' I don't want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose was to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance,» said Ms. Parker, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor.»
Ms. Quinn's poll numbers have been falling, though, as she pursues her dream of becoming the city's first female and first openly gay mayor.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who made history this January when he was sworn in as New York's first openly gay member of Congress, is endorsing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.
Quinn, who aspires to be the city's first female and first openly gay mayor, has more support than the combined backing of her three closest rivals, according to the survey from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Within two hours of Ms. Nixon's speech on Tuesday, the former City Council speaker Christine Quinn, openly gay and an ally of the governor's, declared via The New York Post that Ms. Nixon was an «unqualified lesbian» who should not have opposed her own more viable bid to become the mayor of New York several years ago when Mr. de Blasio won his first term.
As the city rejected the hopes of a candidate who would be come the first woman mayor, the number of lesbian and gay members who will be sitting on the Council grew from four currently to a record six in the new year.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER With Manhattan's massive Pride Parade just two days off, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared outside the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on the morning of June 28 to announce a host of LGBT initiatives she pledged to purse if elected mayor in November.
Is it asking too much of Gay City News readers to hear out all the candidates for mayor and not just ra ra for Quinn who more than many represents the Bloomberg era with its pro developer real estate high rent bias, that left out the working class and poor in their calculations.
Early in the afternoon on September 8, Dan Levitan of BerlinRosen, which works on behalf of the de Blasio campaign, emailed Gay City News to confirm the mayor's endorsement, but he emphasized, «Mayor de Blasio is a strong support [er] of marriage equality and LGBT rights, and the Mayor has been clear about his very strong disagreement with Councilmember Cabrera on these issues.»
As she has talked about the fun of trying on dresses and the stress of writing her wedding vows, it has also provided her an opportunity to soften her sometimes tough image and to remind New Yorkers that she would be both the first female and the first openly gay New York City mayor.
Earlier this week, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told Gay City News that the chances of marriage equality happening in New York were «zero, zero».
He attended Yale Law School, headed up the Children's Aid Society, taught at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and ran Kenneth Reeves» successful campaign for mayor of Cambridge (Reeves was the first openly - gay African - American man to be mayor of any city.)