Ridinger, Robert B.

ROBERT B. RIDINGER (MA, MLS), is Full Professor in the Northern Illinois University Libraries, and has been active for over twenty-five years in working to research and restore the gay and lesbian history of the United States. Among his writings are contributions to Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage and the Gay and Lesbian Almanac and the compiling of the groundbreaking anthology Speaking For Our Lives; Speeches and Rhetoric of Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000).