Edith Windsor remembered for her monumental fight for marriage equality

Edith Windsor was a computer programmer who became a gay rights pioneer.

Back in 2013 she helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that kept same-sex couples from being recognized as spouses (and receiving federal marriage benefits) — and it all started because she wanted a tax refund.  

She died today at the age of 88, according to the New York Times.

Windsor, who often went by her nickname, Edie, first met her future wife, Thea Spyer, at a Greenwich Village New York restaurant in 1963. But it wasn’t until two years later that Windsor started dating Spyer more seriously. Read more…

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