Philadelphia Reveals Street Named After LGBT+ Rights Campaigner Edie Windsor

“The Edie Windsor Way” was unveiled by the city of Philadelphia this weekend with a ceremony celebrating the life of the famed lesbian activist, reports Metro Weekly.

Windsor died last year at the age of 88, she was a fierce LGBT+ rights activist, spending the better part of her last decade fight for the legal recognition of same-sex couples in the US.

She sued the US Government for denying her spousal exemption from federal estate taxes when she inherited the estate of her late wife (they were married in Canada). The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she won in 2013 – arguably paving the way for marriage equality two years later.

Upon hearing of her death last year, President Barack Obama said:“Few were as small in stature as Edie Windsor—and few made as big a difference to America.”

Hillary Clinton, too, praised Windsor’s life: “Thank you Edie, thank you for being a beacon of hope, for proving that love is more powerful than hate, for filling us with a sense of possibility and promise as we answer the question posed by Mary Oliver, ‘tell me what it is you plan to do with your own one wild and precious life?’

“Let us continue to be inspired by Edie’s wild and precious life and let us make her proud every day of how we answer that question ourselves. Thank you, Edie.”