Arthur Evans (author)

Arthur Evans
Born
Arthur Scott Evans

(1942-10-12)October 12, 1942
DiedSeptember 11, 2011(2011-09-11) (aged 68)
OccupationGay rights activist, author
EducationBrown University
City College of New York (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Partner
  • Arthur Bell (1964โ€“1971)
  • Jacob Schraeter (1972โ€“1981)

Arthur Scott Evans (October 12, 1942 โ€“ September 11, 2011) was an early gay rights advocate and author, best known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. Politically active in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s, he and his partner began a homestead in Washington state in 1972, then later moved to San Francisco where he became a fixture in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. In his later years, Evans remained politically active and continued as a translator and academic. His 1997 book Critique of Patriarchal Reason argued that misogyny had influenced "objective" fields such as logic and physics.