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BLOBBIO DESCRIBES HER AS HIS "NUMBER ONE ADVISOR" Insider buzz is that Big Bird Blobbio is ruled by his wife---that the two work hand in hand to make public policy decisions. So much so, that news reports say Police Commissioner Bratton was forced to caution DeBlobbio not to bring his wife to the crucial meeting held to redress grievances of five cop unions Blobbio had slandered.
DE BLOBBIO'S WIFE
RESUME ENHANCEMENT PROGRESSIVE-STYLE During DeBlobbio's campaign, his wife Chirlane I. McCray was billed as a writer, poet, editor, communications professional, and political figure who published poetry and worked in politics for the Clintons. THE REAL STORY Mrs DeBlobbio loudly declared her lesbianism in a magazine article---she was in a black feminist lesbian group and wrote poetry about being a lesbian. Politicker noted her husband's campaign website doesn't reference her background as an avowed lesbian and a lesbian activist or lesbian poet: It notes her affiliation with the Combahee River Collective, omitting mention of the group’s lesbian roots, referencing it as "a pioneering black feminist collective."
The two met while both worked for the Dinkins campaign. She says she had a nose ring and wore African garb when he spotted her and was completely smitten. She never told him she was a lesbian. And later said after their marriage she was still attracted to women. During the mayoral campaign, she was asked about her lesbian lifestyle----she retorted she "didn't understand the question." The Blobbio's honeymooned in Communist Cuba.
THE ODD COUPLE
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VILLAGE VOICE---In 1979, Chirlane McCray, only a few years out of college, came out of the closet. In "I Am a Lesbian," an essay written for Essence magazine, she made the personal political by speaking against the invisibility of black lesbians. Thirty-three years later, she would catapult to far greater visibility as the wife of newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Except for two blips in her husband's campaign, however, this aspect of McCray's life has resisted closer scrutiny. In a recent New York magazine profile, for example, author Lisa Miller describes McCray's 1979 declaration as "a fierce insistence on being heard, damn the consequences."
McCray herself tells the Voice via e-mail that she wonders "why the [Essence] piece wasn't given more attention back then, when there were so few — if any — gay women of color speaking out." The essay surfaced as a potential campaign issue late in 2012, a month before de Blasio officially announced his candidacy. The New York Observer noted that de Blasio's website made only a passing reference to McCray having belonged to a "black feminist" collective.
The Observer also pointed out that a 2011 article co-bylined by the couple in support of marriage equality omitted any mention of McCray's very public lesbian past, even though the article appeared in Go, a lesbian magazine widely distributed throughout the city. The New York Post, at least, immediately took notice. Only days after the Observer story, a Post cartoon depicted the couple in bed, McCray on the phone telling someone, "I used to be a lesbian, but my husband, Bill de Blasio, won me over," while her husband lay beside her clad in sexy lingerie.
