MARIE EQUI Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions presents the life of a fiercely independent, fearless woman. Marie Equi (1872-1952) endured childhood labor in a gritty Massachusetts textile mill before fleeing to a Western homestead in the 1890s. Her commitment to social justice and her willingness to protest defined the rest of her life.

The life of Marie Equi resonates with the political dissent and protest of today when the obstacles to justice seem so great. MARIE EQUI gives an intimate look into the life of both dissent and affirmation, leaving readers inspired and motivated.  
2016 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association 

2015 Foreward's INDIEFab Book of the Year Awards, Gold Award,
Adult Nonfiction/ LGBT​
Available through independent bookstores and online (Powell's Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble)
and ​also as an eBook/Kindle.​
https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/marie-equi 

Watch for Michael's next book 

TO THE BONE: Strife, Sex, & Love in the Early Years of AIDS

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