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Michael Helquist

Author Historian Journalist

Michael Helquist is an award-winning author, historian, and journalist whose 300 published articles have appeared in The Advocate, Ms. Magazine, American Medical News, Oakland Tribune, New York Native, Philadelphia Gay News, San Francisco Bay Times (Coming Up!), Oregon Historical Quarterly, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian. He helped direct the US State Department’s first AIDS prevention project in Global South countries and became a global specialist for AIDS communication. Helquist is currently writing a memoir of his struggle to get to San Francisco in 1980 and how he dealt with what he found. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, Dale Danley, and their two cats.

LONGTIME SURVIVOR: A Memoir of Sex and Healing

A teenage boy, tormented with homosexual shame and desire, escapes his family for refuge in a Catholic seminary of all places. Troubled relationships and impossible jobs follow until all he seeks merge in San Francisco under the darkest threats of all.

Publication pending

Program Alert: MARIE EQUI on Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon Public Broadcasting presents a profile of Portland's Marie Equi, activist, lesbian, and radical, beginning in March 2023. Includes extensive interview with Equi biographer Michael Helquist. Broadcast within OPB region at 9pm, March 20. Also via streaming on the OPB website and on the OPB YouTube channel.

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​Michael HelquistAuthor Historian Journalist

LONGTIME SURVIVOR: A Memoir of Sex and Healing​

Program Alert: MARIE EQUI on Oregon Public Broadcasting

Website by Dale Danley Photography by Michael Helquist unless otherwise noted© Copyright Michael Helquist

Michael Helquist

Author Historian Journalist

LONGTIME SURVIVOR: A Memoir of Sex and Healing

Website by Dale Danley
Photography by Michael Helquist unless otherwise noted
© Copyright Michael Helquist