GLBT pioneer Arthur Evans remembered.

[RandySF]

The gay community and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury have lost a passionate and articulate voice.

Arthur Evans, one of the earliest pioneers for same-sex marriage in the United States who would later become an outspoken fixture of The Haight, died Sunday. He was 69.

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In the months following the Stonewall protests in New York in June 1969 --the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, Evans co-founded Gay Activists Alliance. On June 4, 1971 he led a protest that stormed the New York City Marriage License Bureau demanding gay marriage rights with a mock engagement party.

Film footage of the protest -- which shows Evans with long hair and a beard shouting, “Gay power!” -- was posted Tuesday on the website FrontiersLA.com, along with details of his role in the founding of the gay rights movement.

In 1975 Evans went on to establish the Faery Circle in San Francisco, a neo-pagan gay group -- a precursor to the Radical Faeries, a counterculture queer spirituality movement that continues to this day.



http://www.baycitizen.org/lgbt/story/arthur-evans-haight-ashbury-patriarch/

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