Only one LGBT bill has been introduced at City Hall since Quinn became Speaker in 2006.   Instead of advocating for meaningful legislation to protect LGBT youth, Quinn pushed a bill through the Council that requires the City Clerk to tell LGBT couples registering as domestic partners where they can get married.  Quinn did not support or schedule a hearing for the bill that would create a LGBT youth services division within the Dept of Health, even though “This is a bill that would deal with a lot of everyday issues that LGBT youth face.”

“The same Christine Quinn who claims to speak for the queer community is now attacking the very civil rights gains that have made it possible for her, an out lesbian, to become speaker. Did the Stonewall veterans ask the police for a permit in 1970 when they held NYC’s first Gay Pride Parade? Quinn betrays those who fought hard for civil rights by allowing and supporting police violations of basic tenets of the Constitution.”

In 2009, Christine Quinn refused to endorse the three LGBT candidates running for NYC Council in 2009.  When two of these candidates won anyway, Quinn stated, “I’m very excited about the fact that we’ve doubled the size of our caucus.”

In public, Christine Quinn waves a rainbow flag at gay pride events and pumps her fists in the air at marriage rallies. In fact, she leverages her sexual orientation at every turn, except when she’s being exposed for corruption. In private, she has worked against us when it has served her politically.