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Edie Windsor

Everything you need to know about Edie Windsor, the Supreme Court plaintiff who helped fight the Defense of Marriage Act. Edie Windsor helped bring down section 3 of DOMA. After the death of her late wife, Thea Spyer, Windsor was faced with the unfairness of a bill for $360,000 in estate taxes. That injustice won't happen to others because Windsor brought the case United States v. Windsor to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the section was unconstutional. Her cause was represented by Roberta Kaplan, a lesbian lawyer from the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

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Edie Windsor

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Edie Windsor

Person of the Year Finalists: We limited ourselves to selecting the 10 who were most influential on LGBT lives this year, and the resulting list of consequential figures represents the best of 2013.

The Advocate spoke to the director and subjects of the documentary Before You Know It for insights on love, legacy, activism, and aging.

The lesbian pioneer was a plaintiff in a landmark case that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the United States.

Thanks to Trump, losing our hard-won rights is a clear and present danger.

The civil rights icon who helped defeat the Defense of Marriage Act gifts us with her posthumous memoir, A Wild and Precious Life, out today. Read a thrilling excerpt below.

Philly's gayborhood now has a street recognizing the mother of marriage equality.

The marriage equality pioneer is honored on what would have been her 89th birthday.

In The People's Victory, marriage equality advocates share their battle stories. Read Edie Windsor's below.

To a More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor will be in theaters June 7.

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"I know what Edie means to America," Clinton told the mourners.

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