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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. 

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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 with homophobia and his search for a place that made more sense. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, Dale Danley, and their two cats.

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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
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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 

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Photography by Michael Helquist unless otherwise noted
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