Anne Stanback

Anne Stanback is an out lesbiancite web |title=A Letter from Anne Stanback |work=The Connecticut Conference United Church of Christ |url=http://www.ctconfucc.org/oaministry/stanbackletter032003.html |accessdate=2007-07-09] LGBT rights activist and the founder and Executive Director of Love Makes a Family (LMF), which is a statewide non-profit advocacy organization working for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Connecticut. She was extremely influential in passing a statewide civil unions law in 2005cite web |title=Connecticut's Senate backs landmark civil unions bill |date=2005-04-07 |url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-07-conn-unions_x.htm |accessdate=2007-07-09 |work=USAToday] and continues to advocate for full marriage rights. On October 18, 2006, Stanback was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame for her work as a social justice activist on behalf of the gay and lesbian community.

Stanback is a graduate of Davidson College (1981) and Yale Divinity School (1985).

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