LEADER 00000pam 2200397 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20191202122524.0 008 190906s2019 nyua 001 0aeng 010 2019024260 020 9781250195135|q(hardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dGCmBT|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us---|an-us-ny 092 BIO|bWINDSOR 100 1 Windsor, Edie,|eauthor. 245 12 A wild and precious life :|ba memoir /|cEdie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2019. 300 xiii, 274 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 520 "A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen- Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism"--|cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Windsor, Edie. 650 0 Lesbian activists|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Lesbians|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Gay rights|zUnited States|xHistory. 650 0 Gays|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory|y20th century. 700 1 Lyon, Joshua,|eauthor.
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