My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He became a US citizen in 1946.
