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Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 27, 2013. When Edith Windsor got engaged in the 1960s to the woman who eventually became her wife she asked for a pin instead of a ring. A ring would have meant awkward questions, she said: Who is he? And when do we meet him? On Wednesday, the 83-year-old stood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the face of a case that could change how the U.S. government treats married gay couples. Windsor, whose wife Thea Spyer died in 2009, sued to challenge a $363,000 federal estate tax bill she got after Spyer's death. The pair married in Canada in 2007. Had Windsor been married to a man she would not have paid any estate tax. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
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