The question of what love is endures as one of our deepest inquiries, as individuals and as a culture. Still, there are endless fights to be waged on these couples’ behalves (not to mention the couples in states How hard will it be for same-sex spouses to sponsor a foreign partner?“I think that all married couples [gay and straight] will be entitled to same the treatment under immigration laws,” Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union told me.I am skeptical, as I have a vested interest, having dated a foreigner for many years. When I was giving birth to our daughter,” Cathy says, her wife, Sheila, had no legal hospital visitation rights.“My mother was my next of kin. It is not: she has a full-time job.But she’s getting ready to retire from one of these gigs.“I got what I wanted: full legal equality for my family,” she tells me, beaming. Oct 19, 2012 - Edie Windsor and ACLU Challenge Defense of Marriage Act. (And lawyers dealing with same-sex relationship law will be getting a In theory, same-sex couples, according to the ACLU, now have the right to wed in 13 states and the District of Columbia. She can take care of herself!”Cathy explains when she hangs up: “My mother was crying. On a historic day, Steven Thrasher talks to Edie Windsor, the “shero” of the hour, and takes in the view from across New York City.That’s what Edith Windsor, the octogenarian widow who struck down DOMA with It’s about a million degrees in the tiny room of the LGBT Center where Windsor and her legal team are addressing reporters, and it is stifling even for young people. There are thousands of people who helped us come this far and we still have a lot more work to do. Now that it’s out, they can barely catch their breath between sobs of relief and joy. She had access,” Cathy continues. Auden from memory when asked about the nature of love at a press conference. If Cathy had any medical problems and her wife was denied the ability to make medical decisions, Cathy’s mom would intervene.“I told my mother, ‘Mama, you lost your job!’” Cathy says through her tears. Indeed, and after all these years it’s hard to believe, even for a journalist or an activist: legal marriage is no longer just between a man and a woman in the United States of America. There’s a hunk of a poem by Auden: ‘For now I have the answer from the face / That never will go back into a book / But asks for all my life, and is the Place / Where all I touch is moved to an embrace, / And there is no such things as a vain look.’”This demure, five-foot-tall, 100-pound octogenarian widow who can talk in great minutiae about constitutional law also recites W.H. Sorry, no quotes found. Yet Windsor—wearing her signature broach, which she and her late wife wore for decades as a symbol of their commitment to each other in lieu of wedding rings—seems spry and energetic.“Ms. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. It started with tremendous respect for each other, and two mantras.
It’s hard, I hadn’t thought about it. [My wife] Thea and I had a lot of internalized homophobia as well. Quote Of The Day - Edith Windsor "I am honored that Time chose me as one of the number 3 individuals in the top 5 nominees for ‘Person of the Year,’ but I am just one person who was part of the extraordinary and on-going fight for marriage equality for all our families. Then Cathy’s trademark humor returns and she declares, “God, am I going to be drunk this weekend!”A caller on CSPAN says that he’s upset at the ruling because “marriage is just between a man and a woman.”“Who gives a shit what this guy thinks?” Cathy says, breaking into peels of laughter. She could be talking about the fact that it took a team of six people to disassemble and reassemble the wheelchair of Spyer—who was riddled with multiple sclerosis—when they traveled to Canada to get legally married shortly before Spyer died.“It’s like the word marriage,” Windsor continues. What is love?”There is just the sound of cameras clicking as Windsor pauses and looks a bit choked up.“Love is a million things,” she finally says, noting you could be talking “about adult love, or love of kids.