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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photos of Thea Spyer and Edie Windsor Marriage equality pioneer Edie Windsor and her wife, Thea Spyer, have been honored by having ...

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 the couple’s marriage wasn’t recognized by the federal government, Windsor’s 2013 lawsuit paved the way for a landmark legal victory for same-sex marriage. Editor’s note: This article is the ...

Edie Windsor made history with a lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court and opened the door to legalize same-sex marriage in the United States. Now, six years after her death, the former ...

EXCLUSIVE: Edie Windsor’s memoir A Wild and Precious Life, the story of the acclaimed LGBTQ activist, is being developed as a limited series by Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak’s That’s Wonderful ...

American society changed forever when the Supreme Court overturned section three of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, ensuring gay people were entitled to due process and equal protection under the ...

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 ...