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050 00 HQ75.4.W57|bA3 2019 
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100 1  Windsor, Edie. 
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, [16] pages of plates :|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. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.|2bisacsh 
700 1  Lyon, Joshua,|eauthor. 
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