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New Yorkers protest fatal shooting of gay man
New Yorkers — including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn — planned a rally Monday to protest the shooting death of a gay man in the neighborhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights movement. Mark Carson, 32, was killed with a bullet to the head Friday night in…
NYC City Council Speaker pressing Chick-fil-A to get out of town
One week after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told anti-gay marriage fast food chain Chick-fil-A to stay out of the city, New York City’s City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is going one step further, asking that the lone outpost already in New York hit the road. Quinn, who is considered a…
Lesbian leads top cop in New York mayor polling
NEW YORK — New York could get its first woman — and lesbian — mayor next year, according to a poll Thursday that showed influential city legislator Christine Quinn well ahead of popular Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Neither has declared their candidacy, but Quinn, a Democrat, has long been expected…
New York City in court over homeless shelter policy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration went to court on Friday to defend its controversial new application process at homeless shelters, arguing no rules were broken when the policy was adopted without public scrutiny. The city’s Department of Homeless Services in November tried to reduce the number of…
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