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001			on1110805870
003			OCoLC
005			20191007123746.0
008			190906s2019 nyu 000 0aeng
010			_a 2019024260
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020			_a9781250195135 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1250195136
035			_a(OCoLC)1110805870
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043			_an-us--- _an-us-ny
092			_aWindsor, E. _bW766
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWindsor, Edie, _eauthor. _9175097
245	1	2	_aA wild and precious life : _ba memoir / _cEdie Windsor, Joshua Lyon.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1910
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c[2019]
300			_a274 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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	1	0	_aWindsor, Edie. _9175097
650		0	_aLesbian activists _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aLesbians _zUnited States _vBiography. _985619
650		0	_aGay rights _zUnited States _xHistory. _9175221
650		0	_aGays _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
700	1		_aLyon, Joshua, _eauthor.
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