http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/fashion/weddings/edie-windsor-lgbt-activist-marriage.html 2016-10-01 00:56:36 The Remarriage of Edie Windsor, a Gay Marriage Pioneer Edie Windsor, the veteran L.G.B.T. activist who emerged as a central figure in the marriage equality movement, has gotten married again. === Edie Windsor, the veteran L.G.B.T. activist who emerged as On Monday, she and her new partner, Judith Kasen, a vice president at Wells Fargo Advisors, were wed at City Hall in New York. The city clerk was Michael McSweeney; the officiant was Angel Lopez. It was an understated ceremony. The brides arrived in a black Uber car with just one witness, Danielle Reda, Ms. Kasen’s best friend. Ms. Windsor and Ms. Kasen wore black suits and wound up at the clerk’s office a little later than usual because Ms. Reda forgot to bring identification and had to run back to the Upper East Side, where Ms. Kasen has an apartment, to retrieve it. For Ms. Windsor, marriage to Ms. Kasen is a fortuitous story about finding love in widowhood. In 2007, Ms. Windsor (then 77) and her first spouse, Thea Spyer (then 75), went to Toronto, where gay marriage was legal, and At the time, Ms. Spyer was sick with multiple sclerosis. Two years later she died, and Ms. Windsor, the sole heir of Ms. Spyer’s estate, was hit with a tax bill of $363,000. Ms. Windsor would not have faced the taxes if she had been married to a man. The I.R.S. refused her claim that she was entitled to an exemption, and Ms. Windsor sued for a refund with her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. The case made its way to the United States Supreme Court This helped set a precedent for its ruling in 2015 that made marriage equality the law of the land. But despite the victory, there was no one on the horizon for Ms. Windsor. “I had no sense that anyone wanted anything from me except pictures,” she said. She was wrong. At a number of gay rights events, including some for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in the West Village, Ms. Kasen walked up to Ms. Windsor and tried to flirt. “We’re both activists,” Ms. Kasen said. “I’ve been really involved in the community and seen her at every center dinner and the Hamptons tea dance. I saw her everywhere.” Nothing came of it. But Ms. Kasen, now 51, persisted. In November 2015, Ms. Windsor, now 87, agreed to let Ms. Kasen walk her home from a benefit. A week later, they went on their first date, attending Ms. Kaplan’s Today, Ms. Kasen lives largely at Ms. Windsor’s apartment in Greenwich Village. The couple has spent a lot of time together in Southampton, N.Y., and in February are going on an Ms. Windsor said that the two are also contemplating a four-year move to Barcelona, Spain, in 2017 should Donald Trump become president. But if Ms. Windsor sounded feisty discussing this, she nevertheless is feeling mostly gratitude these days. “I was empty and then this woman walked into my life,” she said. “I didn’t think it would happen again and it did. She is it.”