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 ...

Source: WCAX TV , Hartford Courant , WFFF TV Vermont Senator John Campbell says that he will reintroduce a bill in January that would recognize marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Campbell presented the same bill in last legislative session, which lead to the creation of the Vermont Commission on Family Recognition and Protection, WCAX TV reports. The commission held eight hearings across the state in 2007, and the early part of 2008, and ultimately submitted a report to lawmakers that said civil unions fall short of establishing equal rights and protections of legal marriage. Senator...(read more) ...