Christine Quinn

She's a leading candidate to be New York's next mayor. She's already one of its top Irish-American officials. Christine Quinn is also a lesbian and proud of it. And that's why the City Council speaker won't be marching in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade, an event so entrenched in New York tradition that it's older than the United States. [ Read more → ]

Long seen as a leading contender, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn formally launched Sunday what she hopes will be a history-making mayoral bid. A veteran of city politics, Quinn would be a groundbreaking mayor across two personal dimensions: She would be the first female and first openly gay mayor to lead the nation's largest city. [ Read more → ]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have joined the growing choir of individuals calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. [ Read more → ]

New York City will hold a lottery for couples who want to get married on first day that the state's Marriage Equality Act takes effect, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday. [ Read more → ]

This is a monumental occasion for myself, my family, and the LGBT community. Today true equality is closer than ever. [ Read more → ]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn were in Albany on Tuesday, and lobbied Republican State Senators pass a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

New York Governor David Paterson has asked the state legislature to vote Tuesday on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, calling it "an issue that touches on the very core of our citizenship." In a rare midyear address to a joint session of the... [ Read more → ]

Fighting back tears, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn urged the New York state Senate Monday to "stand up" and pass the same-sex marriage bill to prove "all New York families are equal," the Daily News reports. Quinn, the first gay person to lead the City... [ Read more → ]