[1][2] Politically active in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s, he and his partner began a homestead in Washington state in 1972,[2] then later moved to San Francisco where he became a fixture in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
[2] Evans graduated from public high school in 1960,[3] afterwards receiving a four-year scholarship from the Glatfelter Paper Company in York to study chemistry[3] at Brown University.
[7] He was not at the Stonewall Riots in 1969,[2][3] but they did fuel him into a "militant fervor," according to the New York Times, and inspired him to join the Gay Liberation Front[2] along with Arthur Bell.
Within GLF, he co-created a cell called the Radical Study Group to examine the history of homophobia and sexism, with participants including Evans, Bell, John Lauritsen, Larry Mitchell, and Steve Dansky.
[2] Withdrawing from Columbia in 1972,[2] in 1972, Evans and his lover Jacob Schraeter left New York, purchasing a 40-acre (16-hectare) plot of forest in northeastern Washington state.
[3] Opening a Volkswagen repair business called the Buggery, Evans also began writing a book on homophobia and persecution in the Middle Ages.
[12][3] Published by the independent Boston imprint Fag Rag Books, the work considered, among other topics, early Celtic rituals and their connection with sexual traditions in gay culture.
"[14] Others have noted the book's cultural import, describing it "less a history of persecution than it is an invocational litany or an aggrieved magical treatise on the failures of patriarchal liberalism and industrial socialism to adequately recognize and protect the lives of gay people.
"[9] where Evans argues that magic is an "inherently collective activity, depending for its practice on group song, dance, sex and ecstasy.
[3] Against the "hyper-masculine Castro clone identity" drawing men in during the disco era, he continued his research into faeries and male involvement in Western spiritual traditions.
[3] He directed a 1984 production at the Valencia Rose Cabaret in San Francisco using his own translation of The Bacchae by Euripides, which features Dionysos, patron of homosexuality.
[2] As an overview of the history of Western philosophy, the book focuses on how "misogyny and homophobia have influenced the supposedly objective fields of formal logic, higher mathematics, and physical science."
The two moved to San Francisco in 1974, and although Schraeter returned to New York in 1981, Evans remained at the apartment at the corner of Haight Ashbury for the remainder of his life.