Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court judge for known championing LGBTQ+ rights throughout her career, has passed away at 87 after suffering from pancreatic cancer.
A member of the Supreme Court since 1993 and only the second woman to become a Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg performed multiple same-sex weddings herself.
She also condemned the court’s 2018 decision to rule in favour of a bakery that refused to serve a same-sex couple, saying weddings are a celebration of love regardless of sexuality.Ginsburg was also at the forefront of the gender equality movement in the US.
She orchestrated the legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970s which made her a late 20th century feminist icon and earned her the nickname ‘Notorious RBG’.