Witchcraft and the gay counterculture

This line of inquiry is perhaps best illustrated by the relatively widespread reading and discussion of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch and also the renewed excitement about Fredy Perlman’s Against His-story, Against Leviathan! This book tells a congruent story, but from a unique position. 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].

[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. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture Paperback – June 1, by Arthur Evans (Author) 54 ratings See all formats and editions. Brilliant history and insight-provoking commentary on the ways in which Gay men were persecuted along with women who faced the wrath of the Inquisition & related witch trials throughout Christendom for which sexual diversity was akin to heresy.

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.

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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. 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.

The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization. Contagion Press esoteric queer anarchic. Home Books Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture 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.