Gay Marriage Pioneer Edie Windsor Remarries At 87: ‘I Didn’t Think It Would Happen Again’

Plaintiff In Landmark Case Overturning DOMA Weds Fellow LGBT Activist Judith Kasen

Gay marriage pioneer Edith “Edie” Windsor, the plaintiff in the landmark 2013 Supreme Court case that overturned the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, has remarried at the age of 87. 

Windsor married fellow LGBT activist Judith Kasen, a 51-year-old vice president at Wells Fargo Advisers, on Monday in New York City, according to a report in The New York Times. 

Windsor married her first wife, Thea Spyer, in Toronto in 2007. After Spyer died two years later, Windsor was hit with a $363,000 tax bill because the federal government didn’t recognize their marriage. Windsor’s eventual victory at the Supreme Court paved the way for its Obergefell decision two years later, legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. 

The newlywed couple later met at LGBT rallies where Kasen tried to flirt with Windsor – unsuccessfully at first. Finally, last November, Windsor agreed to let Kasen walk her home from a benefit, and a week later they went on their first date. 

“I had no sense that anyone wanted anything from me except pictures,” Windsor said. “I was empty and then this woman walked into my life. I didn’t think it would happen again and it did. She is it.”

Congrats, Edie and Judith.