Arthur Evans (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Evans (author)

American writer

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1942

Place of Birth: York, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 11-Sep-2011

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

For other persons named Arthur Evans, see Arthur Evans (disambiguation).Arthur Scott Evans (October 12, 1942 – 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.