You probably already know that Edith Windsor is the history making plaintiff in today's Supreme Court case, but how much do you know about the whirlwind romance that started it all? Grab a box of tissues.
After divorcing her husband, Edith asked her friends to, "Take me where the lesbians are."
As she describes it, when she went to the movies, she secretly identified with movie star Dick Powell, not with his co-star Ruby Keeler. After less than a year of marriage, she asked her husband for a divorce.
She went back to school at NYU to gain a mathematics degree and went on to work for IBM.
She had originally graduated from Temple University.
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The first night Edith met Thea Spyer they "danced a hole through the bottom of one of Edie's stockings."
They met in 1963 at Portofino, a New York restaurant where lesbians felt free to openly congregate.
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Thea was her intellectual match, a psychology Ph.D from Adelphi University.
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