Edie Windsor states her gay marriage case
Her testimony may change how the government treats married gay couples.
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Edie Windsor, unlikely heroine of same-sex marriage case, dies at 88. Edie Windsor, the New York octogenarian whose successful challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 paved the way for the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage two years later, died Tuesday. She was 88. Windsor won her case against the federal government, which had denied her the same tax benefits enjoyed by heterosexual widows or widowers following the death of a spouse. Ref. USAToday.