Michael G. Long
Michael G. Long
Michael G. Long is the coauthor, with Yohuru Williams, of More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter.
An expert on LGBTQ rights, civil rights, and nonviolent protest, Long is also the coauthor, with Jacqueline Houtman and Walter Naegle, of Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington; and, with Shea Tuttle, of Phyllis Frye and the Fight for Transgender Rights. Long has also authored or edited Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters; Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny; and We the Resistance: Nonviolent Protest in US History.
Long’s work has been featured in The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Advocate, OutSmart, The Washington Blade, The Afro, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Salon, Ebony/Jet, The Root, The Undefeated, and many other places.
Long has spoken in numerous schools and at the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Constitution Center, the National Museum of American History, the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. And he’s appeared on MSNBC, PBS, C-Span, and National Public Radio.
