| LC control no. | no2011097762 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Windsor, Edie |
| Variant(s) | Windsor, Edith Schlain Schlain, Edith |
| Ending date | 2017-09-12 |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1929-06-20 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--United States |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Gay activists |
| Found in | Edie & Thea [VR], c2010 (Edie Windsor; herself) New York Times website, June 22, 2011 (Thea Clara Spyer and Edith Schlain Windsor were married in Toronto ; graduated from Temple University and received a master's degree in mathematics from New York University.) Wikipedia, May 16, 2016 (Edith "Edie" Windsor; née Schlain; born June 20, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activist and a former technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the United States case, United States v. Windsor, which successfully overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a significant legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. Windsor and Thea Spyer entered a domestic partnership in New York City in 1993; Windsor and Spyer had moved into an apartment together in Greenwich Village in 1968. As New York had not yet legalized same-sex marriage, the couple opted to marry in Toronto, Canada on May 22, 2007) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Windsor> New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 12, 2017 (Edith Windsor; b. Edith Schlain, June 20, 1929, Philadelphia; m. Saul Windsor, 1950 (div.); m. Thea Spyer, 2007 (d. 2009); m. Judith Kasen, 2016; d. Tuesday [Sept. 12, 2017], Manhattan, aged 88; gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits) |
| Associated language | eng |
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