We will be spending a great evening out with friends tomorrow night as Love Makes a Family is having their last fundraiser tomorrow night to celebrate marriage equality in our state and to thank the woman who is greatly responsible for all of this wonderful organization's accomplishments and hard work - Anne Stanback.
I've had the privilege of meeting this woman on more than one occasion and she is a Southern gal who is mild mannered in personality and hard driven in her work. She and her partner just recently got married (after being together for 20+ years!) and I had asked her back in October when the CT marriage bill was passed, when was she going to get married. She replied that they didn't know, so many choices and considerations.
Well, I found out no Faceb**k (when her status changed!) that she had gotten married. When I saw her again a few weeks after that, I asked what they had done for the big day. She said that after all the discussions and trying to figure out when and where and who would be invited, that it ended up being their pastor coming to their home and having their dogs as witnesses! Simple.
That's just how she is. Very low-key, very happy to acknowledge everyone elses hard work and kind of push aside any credit that anyone tries to give to her.
I'm sure she'll be humble in her brief remarks tomorrow night, as she always is, but the room will be filled with love, respect and admiration for this wonderful woman and all that she has done for the gay community in CT.
Looking forward to seeing Sophie on Sunday afternoon. It's been a long week.
Shabbat Shalom.
Yeah, she's good people.
We won't be there but have a BLAST! :)
Posted by: Tina-cious.com | 04/17/2009 at 10:39
Nice post. Anne has done so much for our community. It's sad that LMF is closing. Wish we could have been able to make it to the party! Have lots of fun for us!
Posted by: Jess | 04/17/2009 at 12:06
Sounds great!
So have you been going thru withdrawal not seeing Sophie all week?
I'm sure she can't wait to tell you all about her adventures.
Posted by: KMae | 04/17/2009 at 13:16
Have fun at the fundraiser. It's amazing all that LMF has helped accomplish!
Posted by: PixieFlute | 04/18/2009 at 08:24
Sounds like fun...and I am so glad that your Sophie will be home soon.
Posted by: Maria | 04/18/2009 at 12:41
hi my dear friend...my twitter is twitter.com.marallyn i would love to stay in touch there too...just getting back on my feet after a hard hard year...miss our messages...thank you sooooo much for not giving up on me...love to you and yours
Posted by: marallyn | 04/19/2009 at 21:32