How Edie Windsor Championed Gay Rights: She Was Everywhere
'Four days after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the case that bore her name, Edie Windsor crept down Fifth Avenue in a red convertible Ford Mustang while wearing a rainbow sash, one of three grand marshals in the 2013 New York gay pride parade.
After the decision, Ms. Windsor embraced her expanded profile, using her peculiar form of celebrity — that of a well-known plaintiff — to champion gay rights in New York and beyond. (Since the mid-1970s, when she left a position at I.B.M., she had been a full-time gay-rights activist.)
Although Ms. Windsor, who died on Tuesday at 88, helped the gay community achieve a pivotal victory with that 2013 decision, which granted federal recognition of same-sex marriages for the first time in United States history, her activism continued well into her final months of life. . .
Public funeral services for Ms. Windsor will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Friday at Temple Emanu-El, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/edie-windsor-gay-rights.html?
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