Edith Windsor’s living room is filled with mementos of a battle she never expected to wage. Growing up gay in America, Windsor, now 84, mostly kept a low profile with her sexuality beyond a vibrant ...

Johns Hopkins University unveiled a portrait Monday honoring Edith Windsor, a fearless trailblazer and fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights whose 2013 victory at the Supreme Court ensured equal treatment ...

If Thea Spyer, whose death in 2009 set the stage for Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, were still alive, she might tell her partner, Edith Windsor, “You did it, honey!” ...

Edith Windsor, the fiery LGBTQ rights icon whose legal battles for same sex marriage rights resulted in the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, died on Tuesday ...

When Edith Windsor died at age 88 in 2017, the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court case United States V. Windsor, which overturned a key part of DOMA, left behind a memoir. Completed with help ...

At 5 p.m. last Friday, a line of visibly excited people – many decked out in rainbow regalia – gathered on the sidewalk outside Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the gay and lesbian synagogue in ...

After the Supreme Court struck down The Defense of Marriage Act this morning, Edith Windsor, the 5-foot-tall, 84-year-old woman whose Edie Windsor triumphant on the day DOMA went down. After the ...

Edith Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the Supreme Court next week. When her wife died, Windsor had to pay... Meet The 83-Year-Old Taking On The U.S. Over Same-Sex ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Love took Edith Windsor to the marriage altar. A big tax bill after the death of her first spouse took her to the Supreme Court, which struck down critical parts of a U.S. marriage law ...

Mary Gallagher and Mary Trembinski were together for 25 years before they were allowed to legally marry. On Monday, they traveled from Farmingdale to Southampton to honor the woman who helped make it ...

Edith Windsor, who has always been called Edie, was born in 1929, the youngest of three, to James and Celia Schlain, immigrants from Russia who owned and lived above a candy and ice cream store in a ...