FEATURED EVENT: MARIE EQUI ON OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting presents a profile of Portland's Marie Equi, activist, lesbian, and radical, beginning in March 2023. The program includes an extensive interview with biographer Michael Helquist. It was broadcast within the OPB region at 9pm, March 20 and continues to stream on its website at www.opb.org/show/oregonexperience/ and on YouTube (search OPB Marie Equi). 

Past events

PictureMichael in the radio booth.
We’ve taken MARIE EQUI to 60 different venues  from coast to coast since the September 2015 publication date. In Portland, Eugene, San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Boston, and New Bedford, we’ve engaged with audiences at book stores, universities, book fairs, historical societies, museums, and even at health clinics and a turn at street theater.

We’ve also been interviewed in a half dozen radio and cable TV interviews. A number of publications have given MARIE EQUI rave reviews, including the Western Historical Quarterly, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Bay Area Reporter, Eugene Weekly, The Seattle Lesbian, and the Windy City Times.  
We've kept this listing of past events for the historical record. 
​"Three Significant Early Lesbian Physicians: Marie Equi, Mary Sperry, C. Annette Buckel"
35th Annual Women in Medicine Conference
Plenary session on Monday, August 6, 2018, 9:30 - 10:50 am
Embassy Suites, Napa, CA 
"Perilous Times: Sedition in World War I Oregon"
Saturday, March 31, 2018
2 pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR
​November 13, 2017
"Marie Equi in the Classroom"
Women's History Class
Wahington State University/Vancouver 
September 11, 2017
"Marie Equi, Life Story"
Radio Interview, Out.FM in New York City
​​May 19, 2017
Author Event
Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway, (14th & Broadway), Oakland
Sponsored by Bay Area Lesbian Archives and Laurel Book Store
April 19, 2017
​GUEST LECTURE: Dissent and World War I in the United States and Oregon
WWI Centennial Series lectures
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
OREGON GUEST LECTURE
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland ​
Nov. 11, 2016  
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Oct. 20, 2016
  • ​Sept. 19, 12:30 - 1:20 pm, TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge Bldg G-2, Boston 
  • Sept. 19, 6-8pm, The History Project, 29 Stanhope, Boston  
  • Sept. 21, 7-8pm, New Bedford Public Library, 613 Pleasant St, 3rd Floor, New Bedford
  • Public Library Downtown, Eugene, OR
  • August 6, 2016, 3pm

  • Author Interview, KLCC Radio FM 89.7 FM/NPR, Eugene, OR
  • August 5, 2016
Mechanics Institute Library
San Francisco
July 21, 2016
Q Center 
Book talk presented by The Equi Institute 
Portland, Oregon
June 29, 2016
Portland Federal Building
Book talk for employee Pride celebration 
June 28, 2016 
McMenamin's Kennedy School History Pub
"Portland to the Rescue: Rose City Rushes to Stricken San Francisco"
Portland, Oregon
June 27, 2016
READING AT BOOK SOUP 
West Hollywood, CA 
May 31, 2016
GUEST ON KPFA RADIO, 94.1 FM
"AGAINST THE GRAIN: A Program about Politics, Society and Ideas"
JANUARY 5, 2016

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GUEST ON KPFA RADIO, 94.1 FM 
"WOMEN'S MAGAZINE"
JANUARY 4, 2016

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HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR 
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
SESSION 1: 11 AM - 12 NOON
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO MISSION CAMPUS, 1125 VALENCIA 
"Hidden No More: Public History Rescues Lesbian Radical Marie Equi"







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GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
7-9 PM
4127 18th Street @ Castro, San Francisco


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GUEST ON OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING RADIO,
"THINK OUT LOUD"
OCTOBER 28, 2015
12:00 - 1:00 PM

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GUEST ON WILD PLANET RADIO
OCTOBER 27, 2015


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GUEST ON THE PDX BEAT, EPISODE 51
OCTOBER 27, 2015


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HISTORY PUB AT MCMENAMIN'S EDGEFIELD
"From Soapbox to San Quentin: Oregon's Firebrand Marie Equi"
OCTOBER 27, 2015
6:30 PM (DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 PM)
  • 2126 SW Halsey, Troutdale
JAMES C. HORMEL GAY & LESBIAN CENTER
OCTOBER 8, 2015
6:30 - 8:00 PM
  • James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Main Library
  • 100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor
  • Free and open to the public

Berkeley Launch

BERKELEY
OCTOBER 7, 2015
7:00 – 8:30 PM
PRESENTED BY BOOKS, INC. IN BERKELEY
SAN FRANCISCO LAUNCH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
7:00 - 9:00 PM
PRESENTED BY THE GREEN ARCADE AND HOSTED BY MCROSKEY MATTRESS COMPANY
BROADWAY BOOKS
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • 1714 NE Broadway, Portland 
OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland
  • BICC Building, Room 429
TRIUMPH COFFEE 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • 201 SE 12th Avenue, Portland
PORTLAND LAUNCH
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM 
HOSTED BY OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Hosted by the Oregon Historical Society in partnership with Oregon State University Press
  • Special Guest: Kimberly Jensen, Western Oregon University ​