Gay or straight a corrupt politician is not a role model.

I am a gay rent stabilized tenant in NYC who is being harassed out of my home with the help of Speaker Quinn. I have all the evidence. I have never done anything wrong and always paid my rent on time despite being disabled and on a tight budget. I have fought all the way to the Court of Appeals where the seven judges all voted against me and fined me $4,300 for court costs of the Landlord. The NYState Court of Appeals made an innocent disabled person homeless and fined $4300 for fighting the corruption.

Quinn proclaimed not one tenant will be lost in her Speech to the West Side Tenants at Fordham Univ. The tenants in my building went to her for help and because she refused they gave up and lost their homes taking a buyout they didn’t want. I told Quinn in person at Harmony House when she spoke about the Westside rail yards. She promised to help in front of the crowd. She had an aide take my number and said they would call the next day. No one did. When I called them they gave me the run around.

I went to a hearing about the DOB and told of the corruption. I was rushed off camera and promised help by Quinn’s special assistant Josh Loving Aaronson. I asked if he really would help and he swore to me he would. He did nothing. When I called Quinn’s office I got the run around.

We had a meeting at Quinn’s office after my Landlord was found guilty of harassment in the building next door. It was our second meeting with ADA Kaufman from Manhattan District Attorney’s office. The Landlord had removed the deadbolt lock from one of the tenants at 3:00AM in the morning. The ADA Kaufman said he would start a case against the Landlord and told me to get all my harassing emails together which I did. It was very harassing and took over ten hours. When I got back to ADA Kaufman he didn’t return my calls or my emails. Quinn’s office – I got the run around.

Same for Senator Tom Duane who had his picture taken in front of my building citing the city agencies responsible for removing tenants illegally. After, Duane had a meeting with the Landlord and stopped his help.

All the tenant activists know about Quinn selling out to the Landlords. Your support of her diminishes all gay people and 365Gay

Daniel Peckham

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 works against us when it serves her politically. Quinn is no icon; she is a detriment to the LGBT community:

1. In 2008, Christine Quinn was virtually silent when dozens of middle-aged gay men in her district were being falsely arrested for prostitution. She only called a meeting when the victims threatened to hold a protest at the Mayor’s house, a move that would embarrass her. And she didn’t even bother to show up. Why didn’t she help? It was more politically expedient for her to ignore the gay victims than to speak out against the NYPD’s vice squad. This was an alarmingly weak response from someone who is gay, former head of the Anti-Violence Project and Speaker of the City Council.

2. Christine Quinn refused to endorse even one LGBT candidate for NYC Council in the recent election (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/barrett_16.php). Thankfully, capable gay candidates did win, in spite of the fact that she worked against them because it suited her politically.

3. Christine Quinn rubber stamped an NYPD rule (with no public debate) making it illegal for groups of 50 or more to assemble in public without a permit? Freedom of assembly is vitally important to the LGBT community and is a constitutional right that helped put her into power in the first place.

4. Not one LGBT bill has been introduced at City Hall since Quinn became Speaker.

Christine Quinn has turned her back on the LGBT community time and again to advance her political career:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoANkQh93I