Edith "Edie" Windsor was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM.
34 Facts About Edith Windsor
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Edith Windsor was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States.
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Edith Windsor received her bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1950.
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Edith Windsor then joined IBM, where she worked for the next sixteen years.
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Edith Windsor worked as a programmer at Combustion Engineering, Inc.
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Edith Windsor began her career at IBM as a mainframe programmer.
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Edith Windsor worked at IBM for 16 years and was well known around IBM for her "top-notch debugging skills".
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Edith Windsor received the first IBM PC delivered in New York City.
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Edith Windsor assisted the Atomic Energy Commission, and was at one point even investigated by the FBI.
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Edith Windsor feared that it was because of her closeted homosexuality.
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Edith Windsor later found out it was because of her sister's ties to the Teacher's Union.
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In 1975, Edith Windsor left IBM and became the founding president of PC Classics, a consulting firm specializing in software development projects.
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Edith Windsor helped many LGBTQ organizations computerize their mail systems.
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Saul Edith Windsor was Edie's older brother's best friend, whom she had known for many years and respected.
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However, after Edith Windsor decided she did not want to live life as a lesbian, they reconciled and got married after graduation, in May 1951.
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Shortly after her divorce, Edith Windsor left Philadelphia for New York City.
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Edith Windsor met Thea Spyer, an Amsterdam-born psychologist, in 1963 at Portofino, a restaurant in Greenwich Village.
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In 1967, Spyer asked Edith Windsor to marry, although it was not yet legal anywhere in the United States.
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Edith Windsor used her early retirement to become a full-time caregiver for Spyer, and the couple continued to adjust their daily behavior to accommodate.
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On September 26,2016, Edith Windsor married Judith Kasen at New York City Hall.
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At the time of the wedding, Edith Windsor was age 87 and Kasen was age 51.
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Edith Windsor was a member of the non-denominational Congregation Beit Simchat Torah synagogue, which has been self-described as the world's largest LGBT synagogue.
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Edith Windsor helped Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Jerrold Nadler introduce the Respect for Marriage Act at a press conference in Washington, DC in 2011.
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Edith Windsor was a prominent supporter of Israeli LGBT rights group A Wider Bridge.
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Edith Windsor was required to pay $363,053 in federal estate taxes on her inheritance of her wife's estate.
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Edith Windsor sought to claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses.
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Edith Windsor was honored by the National Computing Conference in 1987 as a "pioneer in operating systems".
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Edith Windsor was the grand marshal of the 2013 New York City LGBT Pride March.
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Edith Windsor was a runner-up, to Pope Francis, for 2013 Time Person of the Year.
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Edith Windsor was honored as The New Jewish Home's Eight Over Eighty Gala 2014 honoree.
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In June 2014 Edith Windsor traveled back to Toronto, the city where she married Thea Spyer, to receive an award at WorldPride.
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On June 26,2014, Edith Windsor was featured on Logo TV's 2014 LOGO Trailblazers.
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In June 2019, Edith Windsor was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in New York City's Stonewall Inn.
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Edith Windsor received numerous awards related to her work in technology and LGBT activism.