The class of Edie Windsor

... school and moved to New York to get a bachelor's from NYU, and a master's from Columbia. She lived in Greenwich Village and was known as Danny. On her way to classes, she would stop at the gay bar run by the mafia and put her dollar down for their ...

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/07/25/opinion-kate-clinton-the-class-of-edie-windsor/