Anne Stanback is an out lesbian 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 2005. 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).