NY Plaintiff: Gay Benefits 'Bigger Than Marriage'

At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about gay America squarely before the Supreme Court. But the Philadelphia-born former IBM executive scoffs at how much gumption was necessary to go to court at a time when societal views of gay relationships are shifting. "The world has progressed," Windsor says. "At the beginning of World War II, they really did think we had horns." ...Full Story