Anne Stanback was director of Love Makes a Family, the campaign to win marriage in Connecticut, and served on the steering committee and then board of directors for Freedom to Marry from 2010 to 2016. Stanback was born in 1958 in North Carolina and raised and educated there through college. She attended Yale Divinity School with the goal of doing social justice work. In the early 1980s she had come out as a lesbian and worked in feminist and lesbian organizations. In 1999 she was a founder of Love Makes a Family, which advocated extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. In this interview, Stanback discusses the marriage equality movement in Connecticut from the 1990s through 2009 when the state started issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Stanback also discusses her role on the steering committee and, once it was separately incorporated, on the board Freedom to Marry’s 501(c)(4) political advocacy arm.