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Span Dates: Bulk Dates: Volume: 11 linear feet. The date span of the papers is They include manuscripts, typescripts, and publication tearsheets of Donaldson's writings, editorial and administrative papers for the unpublished Concise Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, personal and professional correspondence, news clippings and printed material, visual materials, audiotapes, and a few items of clothing and ephemera.

Gay Stephen Donaldson Papers are an important resource for the study of gay and donaldson activism, prisoners and prison life and American counter-cultural movements from the ss. Donaldson's correspondence and writings provide a fascinating view of the student uprising at Columbia University, the origins of the gay student movement, gay sexual revolution of the lates and drug use within the youth subculture of that period.

Also documented from a first-hand perspective is Donaldson's ground-breaking fight against his General Discharge from the United States Navy for suspected homosexual involvement. Donaldson's letters regarding the case are complemented by news clippings, press releases and gay of Navy records.

The papers also contain much information on Donaldson's wide-ranging interests, including Indian religions, the history donaldson sexuality, gay and bisexual activism, prison conditions and the sexual victimization of male prisoners, punk rock music and the donaldson subculture.

Visual materials include photoprints, photocopies, negatives and drawings of Stephen Donaldson, scenes from his travels, his friends and colleagues and various punk rock performances. Audiotape cassettes contain interviews and lectures by Stephen Donaldson and others on the topics of male sexual victimization and prisoner rape, bisexual activism and punk rock.

Copyright All rights reserved. Writer and activist Stephen Donaldson was born Robert A. Martin, Jr. Donaldson came out as gay and ran away to New York City in the summer of He was a participant in the spring student uprising on the Columbia campus. In diary entries and letters written during these years he described his political radicalization, his experiments with marijuana and LSD and his sexual encounters with men and women.

Inspired by many aspects of the sexual revolution of the lates, Donaldson increasingly identified himself as bisexual. He began to publish short articles and poems in gay publications, occasionally under the pen name Stephen Donaldson. Though he never legally changed his name, he increasingly chose to identify himself by this pseudonym, particularly during the ss.

After his graduation from Columbia, Donaldson enlisted in the U. At this time he also became a practicing Buddhist and explored the religious traditions of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers. In the Navy announced its intention to release him by General Discharge on grounds of suspected homosexual involvement.

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Donaldson mounted an unprecedented public campaign against his discharge. Though he lost this fight and was released in Junehe later won an upgrade to Honorable Discharge. Donaldson settled in the Washington D. In he gay arrested at a Quaker peace protest at the White House, and was subsequently raped by inmates in the Washington D.

This experience, and incidents which occurred during later stints in prison, led to his outspoken activism on the issue of sexual victimization donaldson male prisoners, most notably with the organizations People Organized to Stop the Rape of Imprisoned Persons and Stop Prisoner Rape. In May he was ordained as a novice monk in the orthodox Theravada Buddhist Order.