Quinn and her longtime partner, products liability lawyer Kim Catullo, married last year after more than a decade together.
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In an interview in their apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, Quinn and Catullo agreed the ideal solution for them would be federal recognition of the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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"It doesn't help, " Catullo says of Obama's opposition.
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