Life without benefits for India's gay couples

The argues that because of the Defense of Marriage Act, you were unfairly taxed on the estate of your spouse, Thea Spyer, who died in 2009. What did you think when Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law? Hated it. I hated him. I would trust no Clinton ...

This week was no exception, and I was rewarded by stumbling across an interesting interview ofEdith Windsor, the lesbian widow challenging DOMA in the Supreme Court. An excerpt You have said that you were never active in NOW or the women's rights ...

Editor's note: Edith Windsor, 83, is the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. (CNN) -- On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in my case challenging the discriminatory Defense of ...

Gay marriage supporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court only wanted to see one celebrity on Wednesday. As Edith Windsor walked out of the court after arguments in her case challenging the 1996 Defence of Marriage Act, a huge roar erupted from ...

Edith Windsor is leading the campaign to erase the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on her suit, which she filed after she had ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation met Edith Windsor this week. Clad in a pink scarf and blowing kisses to a throng of supporters, Edie, as many call her, politely excused herself from the spray of reporters armed with cameras and recorders and eager ...

It has to do with "our dignity," being able to be who we are openly. That's what Edith S. Windsor the woman challenging the cramped definition of marriage embedded in the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) said in a documentary about her ...

WASHINGTON — When Edith Windsor got engaged in the 1960s to the woman who eventually became her wife she asked for a pin instead of a ring. A ring would have meant awkward questions, she said: Who is he? Where is he? And when do we meet him? On ...

Edith Windsor, who filed the original case that could upend the Defense of Marriage Act, says just getting the case to this point is a kind of victory. "We've made a huge step forward and a huge difference in how people look at us," she said. "And ...