Arthur Evans (author)
| Arthur Scott Evans | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 12, 1942 York, Pennsylvania |
| Died | September 11, 2011 (aged 68) San Francisco, California |
| Pen name | Arthur Evans |
| Occupation | Gay rights activist, author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Brown University, City College of New York, Columbia University |
| Alma mater | City College of New York |
| Partner | Arthur Bell (1964-1971), Jacob Schraeter (1972-1981) |
Arthur Scott Evans (October 12, 1942, York, Pennsylvania – September 11, 2011, San Francisco, California) was an early gay rights advocate and author, most well known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. Politically active in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s, in 1972 he and his partner formed a group called the Weird Sisters Partnership on a homestead in Washington state. He later moved to San Francisco, where he became a fixture in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and was involved with founding the group that later became the Radical Faeries. In his later years, he was politically active and continued as a translator and academic. In 1997, he wrote Critique of Patriarchal Reason, where he argued that misogyny had influenced "objective" fields such as logic and physics.
Evans was born on October 12, 1942 in York, Pennsylvania. His father was a factory worker, while his mother ran a beauty shop in the front of their family home. Evans graduated from public high school in 1960, afterwards receiving a four-year scholarship from the Glatfelter Paper Company in York to study chemistry at Brown University. Evans and several friends founded the Brown Freethinkers Society, a group of self-professed "militant atheists" working against organized religion, which picketed Brown's required weekly chapel services. The story was picked up nationally. As a result, the paper company canceled Evans' scholarship, and Evans contacted Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers Society, and Lewis threatened the paper company with a lawsuit if the scholarship were dropped. The scholarship stayed in place, with Evans switching to a major in political science. Evans withdrew from Brown and moved to Greenwich Village in 1963, which he later described as the best move he ever made in his life. Evans was admitted to City College of New York in 1966, switching his major to philosophy from political science, and graduating in 1967. He afterwards joined the doctoral program at Columbia in philosophy, where he focused on ancient Greek philosophy while continuing to take part in protests. His doctoral advisor was Paul Oskar Kristeller.
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