Sentences with phrase «lesbian city council speaker»

Christine Quinn, the lesbian City Council speaker, lobbied fellow Irish Catholic Flanagan («They've said we'll do everything we can to help you,» he says.

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The LGBT Memorial Commission, which included Christine Quinn, an out lesbian and former speaker of the City Council, and Eunic Ortiz, then the president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City, an LGBTQ political club, had to include «individuals with a range of perspectives, interests, and specific knowledge concerning the LGBT community.»

Cuomo dismissed her candidacy as «political silly season»; his ally Christine Quinn, the former speaker of the New York City Council, called Nixon an «unqualified lesbian.»

Christine Quinn, former New York City Council speaker and mayoral candidate, who has been a special advisor to Cuomo, and who is vice chair of the State Democratic Party, called Nixon an «unqualified lesbian.»

Nixon's sexuality was brought into the spotlight recently by former City Council speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, who slammed her as an «unqualified lesbian.»

The former City Council speaker and one - time mayoral candidate called Nixon an «unqualified lesbian.»

said Christine Quinn, the City Council's first openly lesbian speaker, speaking to a crowd in front of the historic Stonewall Inn in the West Village, where nearly 100 people gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the ruling.

As for other developments — former City Council speaker, one - time mayoral candidate, and former Cuomo employee Christine Quinn slammed Nixon as an «unqualified lesbian» on Tuesday, while law professor and 2014 gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout heartily endorsed her run.

On Tuesday, Christine Quinn, the former New York City Council speaker who has been discussed as a possible running mate for Mr. Cuomo, called Ms. Nixon an «unqualified lesbian.»

Many gays supported de Blasio's 2013 primary opponent, Christine Quinn, who was the city's first openly lesbian NYC Council speaker.

«Cynthia Nixon was opposed to having a qualified lesbian become mayor of New York City,» former City Council speaker Christine Quinn told the New York Post Tuesday, referring to Nixon's decision to endorse Bill de Blasio over herself in the 2013 New York City mayoral race.

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.

Quinn, the former City Council speaker, got in trouble last week for calling herself a «qualified lesbian» as opposed to Nixon, whom she deemed «an unqualified lesbian.»

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community CenCity Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Cencity only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

«So many of us have waited a lifetime for the day we could see full equality for all New York families, now that day is finally in sight,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city's first openly lesbian speaker, said in a statemCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city's first openly lesbian speaker, said in a statemcity's first openly lesbian speaker, said in a statement.