U.S. gay marriage pioneer Edith Windsor dies at 88

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Edith Windsor, the New York woman whose successful challenge to a federal law that had defined marriage in the eyes of the U.S. government as between one man and one woman helped pave the way for gay marriage nationwide, died on Tuesday at age 88.

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