William Armstrong Percy III (December 10, 1933 – October 30, 2022) was an American professor, historian, encyclopedist, and gay activist.
[2] His mother was raised by her widowed uncle, the distinguished Memphis lawyer Dent Minor.
[5] Percy served as the other associate editor with Warren Johansson of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (1990), which won six prizes.
[2] Paul Cartledge, of the University of Cambridge, described Percy's Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece (1996) as the first work to try to go beyond Kenneth Dover's "groundbreaking" Greek Homosexuality.
[8] The earlier average dates were found by Percy among his personal trove of ancient Roman wedding licenses and divorce papyri.