Tag: Edie Windsor
Gay rights activist and mother of equal marriage, Edie Windsor, dies aged 88
Rest In Power.
Gay rights activist Edith Windsor has passed away aged 88, her wife Judith Kasen-Windsor confirmed to the New York Times.
Windsor’s Supreme Court case back in 2013 overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, giving same-sex married couples federal recognition in the US for the first time.
After her previous wife, Thea Spyer, died she sued the US government after being ordered to pay $363,053 (£224,940) in federal estate tax.
They had been together for 44 years and married in Canada...
