I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city, the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born, that that type of
language can not be tolerated... I think that all of us need to recommit to making sure that whenever we hear
language of any type that is demeaning, derogatory,
racist, sexist, homophobic, anything of that nature that we speak out
against it.»