Witchcraft and the gay counterculture

Witchcraft’s own argumentation offers a vindication of queer sensuality, magic, and anarchist violence which speaks for itself and can be followed toward any number of endeavors in the pursuit of freedom and wildness. Oct 6th, Fundraising for Feral Crust Infoshop!

In Evans was admitted to City College of New York, which accepted all his credits from Brown University. Arthur Scott Evans (October 12, – September 11, ) was an early gay rights advocate and author, best known for his book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture [es].

By Arthur Evans This radical faerie classic, first published in by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization.

The trouble is, that so much of this narrative relies on assumptions and deductive leaps. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture: A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the People it Has Tried to Destroy - Kindle edition by Evans, A.

Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. He changed his major from political science to philosophy and became active in the anti-war movement. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual freedom was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation.

This radical faerie classic, first published in by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. Reviews from Goodreads. [1][2] Politically active in New York City in the s and early s, he and his partner began a homestead in Washington state in[2] then later moved to San Francisco where he became a fixture in the Haight.

How Queer! Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture: A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.

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He participated in his first sit. In Evans discovered gay life in Greenwich Village, and in became lovers with Arthur Bell (later to become a columnist for the Village Voice). Activist scholars like Arthur Evans in his book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture made influential but thinly sourced and ultimately discredited contributions to the modern perception that historical witchcraft was intertwined with LGBT folks.