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And This is Supposed to Dispel the Notion that Marriage is a Rich Gays’ Issue…How?

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And so we now have… A $363,000 Tax Bill to Widow Led to Obama Shift in Defense of Marriage Act … Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer had a 40-year engagement and a two-year marriage, starting with a wedding in Canada recognized under the laws of New York, where they lived, and ending when Spyer died two years ago. Her death triggered a $363,053 federal tax bill from which her widow would have been exempt had she been married to a man, because the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex unions. … Both women in the New York case were professionals, with homes in Manhattan and Long Island. The Amsterdam-born Spyer was a clinical psychologist. Windsor, born in Philadelphia, earned a master’s degree in mathematics from New York University and built a career as a manager for International Business Machines Corp., according to a complaint

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Community significance

“And This is Supposed to Dispel the Notion that Marriage is a Rich Gays’ Issue…How?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to family and relationships, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “And This is Supposed to Dispel the Notion that Marriage is a Rich Gays’ Issue…How?” provides dated evidence of how family and relationships was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to family and relationships and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
36%
3
Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
18%
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
18%
5
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
14%

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Clinical and medical analysis
100%
2
Legal analysis
33%

Policy framing

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%

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How “Family and relationships” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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18 2008

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58 2011

19 2012

65 2013

17 2014

4 2015

7 2017

5 2018

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1 2021

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