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Summer 2016 Author Events – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Eugene

5/23/2016

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​The MARIE EQUI West Coast book tour continues this summer with several appearances, starting in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 31 and continuing through a stop in Eugene, Oregon on August 6th.
 
May 31, Tuesday, 7pm at Book Soup Bookstore in West Hollywood, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood. “The West Coast Lesbian You’ve Never Heard Of,” an author talk with slides. Books available for purchasing and signing.

June 27, Monday, 9am, live broadcast on the “Old Mole Variety Hour,” KBOO Radio  90.7 FM in Portland. Helquist will discuss the 100th anniversary of  the arrest in Portland of birth control advocate Margaret Sanger and lesbian activist Marie Equi for distributing a birth control how-to guide. The host of the program is Laurie Mercier.

June 27, Monday, 7p at Kennedy History Pub, McMenamin’s in Portland, 5736 NE 33rd Avenue. Titled “Portland to the Rescue: The Rose City Rushes to 1906 Stricken San Francisco,” the talk with slides is free and open to the public. Doors at 6pm, event at 7pm. Books available for purchase and signing.
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June 28, Tuesday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm at the Eastside Federal Complex in Portland. Book talk with slides. The US Fish & Wildlife Services and the Bonneville Power Administration will co-host the event in recognition of LGBT Pride Month. Attendance is limited to federal employees. All federal employees in the Portland district are welcome. Books available for purchase and signing.
 
June 29, Wednesday, 11 am, downtown Portland, the Birth Control Brigade, an ad-hoc group of historians and reproductive justice activists, will present a street theater re-enactment of the arrest of birth control advocate Margaret Sanger and lesbian activist Marie Equi one hundred years on this day. Details to be announced.
 
June 29, Wednesday, evening, a special LGLBT Pride event in north Portland, location to be announced. Free and open to the public. Books available for purchase and signing.
 
Mid-July (date & details to be announced), Mechanics Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco.  a talk with slides about War and Disaster Preparedness, a centennial commemoration of the 1916 Preparedness Day Parades in Portland and San Francisco. Books available for purchase and signing.
 
August 6, Saturday, afternoon (TBA), Eugene Public Library, Eugene, Oregon. Book talk with slides. Free and open to the public. Books available for purchase and signing.

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