Yolanda Retter (December 4, 1947 – August 18, 2007) was an American lesbian activist, librarian, archivist, and author.

[3] Retter attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and graduated in 1970 with a degree in sociology.

She worked in prison and parole programs, as a director of a rape hotline, and original publisher of the Los Angeles Women's Yellow Pages.

[3] From 2003 to the time of her death, Retter served as the head librarian and archivist of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[5] Retter died on August 18, 2007, in Los Angeles, California, after a short battle with cancer.