Christine Ruth Riddiough was raised in the Milwaukee, Wi area, attended Carleton College in Minnesota, and came to Chicago in 1968 to attend graduate school in astrophysics at Northwestern University. From 1970 to 1977 she was a leader and activist in the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. Here she founded Blazing Star, a lesbian group with a newspaper of the same name, participated in the Liberation School for women, and served on the CWLU Steering Committee where, from 1974-75, she helped plan the first Socialist Feminist Conference held in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1975.  When CWLU disbanded in 1977 she became involved in Lesbian/Gay coalition work becoming co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago from 1976 – 78. This organization, originally founded to oppose national celebrity Anita Brant’s anti-gay campaign of the late 70s, included a broad section of organizations and businesses representing both women and men. In 1980 she was co-chair, along with Bill Kelley, of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force an organization that pushed for gay rights bills and laws at the city and state level. In 1982 she moved to Washington, D.C. to work for Mary Jean Collins, then Action Director of National NOW, on Lesbian rights. Christine continued to be a leader and board member in the Democratic Socialists of America and served from 1986 – 1988 as chair of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club a local political action organization in Washington, D.C. and member of the National Association of Gay and Lesbian Democratic Clubs. She recently retired from a successful career as a technical trainer/instructor and strategic consultant.