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Quinn Hits Emotional Note
April 17th, 2009

Her elated photo may have graced the front page of the Times today — below the fold — but the particularly poignant speech delivered by Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday went relatively unnoticed.

Kind of surprising, at least to this reporter.

Quinn is the first woman and openly gay speaker of the City Council, and her six-minute speech yesterday on the governor’s introduction of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage was not without highly emotive (practically tear-jerking for those who hold the same-sex marriage issue close to the heart) quotes.

In front of dozens of flashing cameras, Quinn said: “New Yorkers don’t look at me and my partner and say, ‘They are different. They deserve less.’ New York is a state that was built and blazed on the idea that people should have equality and be treated the same,” Quinn said, her voice quivering slightly.

She continued: “So that minority of people that have become too vocal and too listened to, look me in the eye and tell me that I deserve less. Look me in the eye and tell me that Kim and I aren’t a family, that we don’t struggle every day, that we don’t pay taxes, that we don’t work every day for this city. No one can look me or her in the eye and tell us that because it is not true.”

By Courtney Gross on April 17, 2009, 12:20 pm
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