She is currently working on her first novel. If your kid wrote notes on her hand or talked smack during class, chances are she was Annmarie’s favorite.Īnnmarie loves kickboxing, karaoke, quidditch, dogs, books that make her laugh, movies that make her cry, and salads other people make her eat. The LGBTQ+ book group will provide a safe space for anyone interested in reading and engaging with others about novels with LGBTQ+ themes. She holds a Masters in Urban Education from Yale and has taught American Literature in a half-dozen high schools from Florida to Seattle. Annmarie is a dynamic and sought-after speaker who engages corporate and educational audiences about Work-Life Balance, Parenting, Writing, and Living Your Best Life Now.Īnnmarie has been a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered and a frequent contributor to print and online media from the New York Observer to the Huffington Post. She is the host of Wild Precious Life, a podcast about making the most of the time we have. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen- Windsor in 2016.Annmarie Kelly Harbaugh is the author of Here Be Dragons: A Parent’s Guide to Rediscovering Purpose, Adventure and the Unfathomable Joy of the Journey, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising children with someone you love. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. 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 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. 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.
The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. 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. 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality.
"A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and.
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