Program Alert: MARIE EQUI on Oregon Public Broadcasting
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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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"Excellent biography.""It’s really a fine, careful book, and if you’ve read my recent American Midnight you’ll see that I rely on you for almost all the information I had about her. A fascinating woman, and you did her justice."
Adam Hochschild, Historian and Author, highly acclaimed for several works, including King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. |
Michael Helquist is an award-winning author, historian, and activist whose work has appeared in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Ms. Magazine, The Advocate, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the American Medical News. He has co-authored several books on social marketing and AIDS communication and prevention. He has also directed a global AIDS program for the US State Department. Helquist is currently writing a memoir of his struggle to get to San Francisco in 1980 and what he experienced there. Helquist lives in San Francisco with his husband, Dale Danley, and their two cats.
Read more about how the sixties triggered Michael's activism and helped him find his voice as a writer.
Read more about how the sixties triggered Michael's activism and helped him find his voice as a writer.