Christine Quinn

Respect For All Week just came to an end in the 1,700 New York City public schools. It was a week-long anti-bullying effort promoting diversity and tolerance.

Now City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the Schools Chancellor are implementing a series of new pro-tolerance education initiatives.

The initiatives will be implemented during the 2011-2012 school year. Quinn and the Department of Education unveiled the program back in 2007.

NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn [pictured] helped pass legislation which requires the City Clerk to inform couples registering for domestic partnerships about other states and countries where they can get married. Same sex marriages performed elsewhere are recognized as valid marriages by the state of New York.