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Currently, Christine Quinn is the front-running Democrat in the race for New York City mayor, and if elected, she would be both the first woman and the first openly gay person to lead the nation’s biggest city.

A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing in the heart of one of its most gay-friendly neighborhoods, is stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage heading into what is usually a time of gay pride celebration.

Police have released the name of the victim and suspect of Saturday’s anti-gay killing in Greenwich Village.

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence.

Christine Quinn, the veteran politician seeking to become the city’s first gay and first female mayor, reveals that she was bulimic for a decade in her teens and 20s and considers herself a recovering alcoholic.

The fight for gay rights in New York has led to watershed success seemingly everywhere except the city’s biggest parade on St. Patrick’s Day. A much smaller "inclusive" parade celebrates LGBT Irish-Americans excluded from the Fifth Avenue event.

Out City Council Speaker’s Christine Quinn’s rising political prominence is bringing a decades-long dispute between New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers and gay activists back into sharp relief.

If she wins, the president of New York’s City Council, whom some accuse of being too cozy with business interests, will immediately become one of the nation’s most prominent LGBT politicians.

New York City’s hot race to succeed Mayor Mike Bloomberg just got a lot hotter, but politics took a backseat after all Democratic candidates condemned the New York Post for a snide cartoon about a candidate’s wife’s lesbian past.

Christine Quinn, the first female and first openly gay speaker, and other politicians are already preparing to introduce themselves to voters who haven’t paid much attention to who, exactly, will succeed Michael Bloomberg.