1929-2017 Edith Windsor – IBM engineer

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Edith Windsor – IBM engineer & American LGBT Rights Activist – New York City, New York

(Photo: courtesy Gay Prider  https://www.gayprider.com/ 

Text: Sean Dunnington, "LGBTQ History of Geography & Computers” Project)

Edith “Edie” Windsor is best known as a gay rights activist who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court Case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and led to the legalization of gay marriage. What’s less well known is that Windsor was a computer programmer and an engineer, working with the UNIVAC at Combustion Engineering, Inc., and later at IBM in the 1950s and ’60s, eventually becoming a senior systems engineer.

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