Wchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans

Contents:

• WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE
• WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY UNTER CULTURE : A RADIL VIEW OF WTERN CIVILIZATN AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAS TRIED TO STROY
• WCHCRAFT: THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE
• WCHCRAFT GAY COUNTERCULTURE BY ARTHUR EVANS (42 RULTS)
• WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE BY ARTHUR EVANS

WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE

Homosexualy and Class Warfare4. The Mass Murr of Women and Gay People8. The only other review for this mt be wrten by a homophobe bee clearly he read the tro and then got offend immediately and cid to leave a review that mak him sound like a manchild.

GenrQueerHistoryWchcraftNonfictnLGBTRelignSpirualy 180 pag, PaperbackFirst published January 1, 1978About the thorIn 1963 Evans disvered gay life Greenwich Village, and 1964 beme lovers wh Arthur Bell (later to bee a lumnist for the Village Voice). " This is a history of the velopment of human society told om the pot of view of the wiped out native cultur, pagans, wch and homosexuals.

WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY UNTER CULTURE : A RADIL VIEW OF WTERN CIVILIZATN AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAS TRIED TO STROY

As a gay man I've often been alienated om the domtited, bourgeois homosexualy of morn society.

This stems om both the suffotg force of HIV/AIDS which has hnted gay sexualy for s and ma sex a renzvo wh Thanatos, and the emergence of "rporate pri" and our sperate seekg of rpect and cln om a society that hat . Evans go to tail about the Cathars for example who engaged i and homosexualy, rejected marriage and held a downright antatalist view toward brgg new life to the world. Homosexualy asi, Evans talks about the persecutn of women, the erasure of maternal societi and abortn.

WCHCRAFT: THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE

Bis feelg a b outdated, some nclns Evan's reach feel a ltle far-fetched, pecially etymology for Evans died 2011, I n only image he watched as his predictns of gay domtitn me te. '"April 17, 2018Overall the book was a fascatg breakdown of how the systematic opprsn of gay relig culture was ed by christian stutns (the church, state, urbanizatn etc) to create the power hierarchy that shap our realy today.

Partly the lack of historil ngency ma the total narrative a b hard to follow, but they did a great job at showg a variety of ways that patriarchal/palist/homophobic has veloped by domatg nature religns and non-dtrial or non-urban peopl. The book exam the role of homosexualy pre-Christian Wtern Europe. It is mostly ialized more then is actual historil rearch, but the book was very spiratnal to many gay men who were searchg for spirual answers.

WCHCRAFT GAY COUNTERCULTURE BY ARTHUR EVANS (42 RULTS)

Brilliant history and sight-provokg mentary on the ways which Gay men were persecuted along wh women who faced the wrath of the Inquisn & related wch trials throughout Christendom for which sexual diversy was ak to hery. Many of the cricisms of morn polics rema que relevant, pecially those of liberalism, socialism, and the gay bourgeoisie.

Evans evok a worldwi pre-history of "nature societi" characterized by genr egalarianism, homosexualy and munal property relatns. He criqu ntemporary palism along wh state socialism (as he characteriz the USSR and to some extent Cha), and lls for the creatn of a munist future based on a refoundg of lol ral mun based on homosexualy and shared magil practice. The fact that severe forms of patriarchy veloped and were mataed many "nature societi" that still practiced magic and had tolerant views about homosexualy is somethg that really needs to be addrsed a book like this.

WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE BY ARTHUR EVANS

To buy Evans' claim that the bt hope for the future is to recreate ral nature Gay magic mun, 's necsary to expla why the will be liberatg and not velop to the seeds of new patriarchal or opprsive systems. A mt read for stunts of queer history who have been stgglg to fd anythg -pth about our history before the largt plat would have to be the cisgenr lens that the thor plac on cultur of the past - seeg those who lived outsi the bary of man or woman as "gay men/gay women transvt. Favore88 reviews1 followerJune 29, 2020It was very tertg to learn about homosexualy Europe and how was seen pre-Christian religns.

However, I did miss readg some more about lbians and transgenr people ( was basilly all about male homosexualy). By proclaimg wch (read homosexual and unladylike women) and sodom (read homosexual men and transvt) to be heretics, both as a way to al wh people outsir of the norm and polil enemi, relign have uphold a powerful grip on peopl sexualy and genrs.

However, beg published 1978, I n allow I nt look past though are the almost farcil last two chapter, where Evans drops the ball pletely and starts talkg about class, palism and gay liberalism, while also euragg the rear to love to the woods to start up gay llectiv that worships nature.