Stanback Perseveres In Efforts Toward Gay Rights

She’s not a lawyer or a lawmaker, but few people were more pivotal to the struggle for same-sex marriage in Connecticut than Anne Stanback.

She spent the better part of the past decade forging coalitions, lobbying legislators, raising money and doing the grunt work of community organizing.

“The phrase that comes to mind is either relentlessly gracious or graciously relentless,” said Lee Swislow, executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, the Boston-based group that successfully sued to bring same-sex marriage to the state.

“Anne never stopped. In this incredibly warm and gracious way, she just kept coming at you … engendering a tremendous amount of respect, whether you agreed with her or not.”See Stanback Perseveres In Efforts Toward Gay Rights
Hartford Courant, United States