Edie Windsor, the woman who went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in her successful battle against DOMA and the federal government, says “there is no wrong time for justice.” She explains how she got there — and how she fought the nation’s top LGBT group on the way.
Edie Windsor has never been one to mince words. At least not in recent years. In this interview celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court striking down Section 3 of DOMA, Windsor sits with Marriage Equality USA’s Cathy Marino-Thomas and her wife, Sheila Marino Thomas, and talks about the battle.
“I was scared to death,” Windsor says, when she first saw the first legal brief that said Edie Windsor v. United States of America.
In the video, Edie says that in 2005 she went to a meeting held by the Human Rights Campaign, and details how they bragged how they were one the same page as the Bush administration on LGBT civil rights, and that marriage would be “a few years down the pike.” Windsor says she stood up and declared, “I’m 77-years old and I can’t wait!”
She adds that the naysayers who tried to discourage her didn’t know what hey were talking about. “I was going,” Edie says. “There is no wrong time for justice. So if you’re going to go for it, go for it!”
Windsor is a long time volunteer with Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) and Marriage Equality New York. MEUSA honored Windsor with an award in 2011.
This is the first of series of videos from MEUSA celebrating Edie Windsor — who deserves our deepest thanks and appreciation.
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