Editing Stephen Donaldson (activist) (section)

====Motivation====
In August 1965, Donaldson "had a social worker call the dean's office to ask whether Columbia would register a known homosexual." After a delay of two weeks, the administration responded that he "would be allowed to register, on condition that he undergo psychotherapy and not attempt to seduce other students."<ref name=eisenbach />

He entered [[Columbia University]] that fall and began using the pseudonym Stephen Donaldson so he could be open about his sexuality without embarrassing his father. They both were named Robert Martin, and his father taught mathematics at [[Rider College]] in New Jersey.<ref name=eisenbach/> The surname was based on the first name, "Donald", of the baseball teammate who was his first love.<ref name=dynes /> His first year of college was difficult: he met no other bisexual students or faculty and had to move from a shared suite to a single room when his suitemates "told the college dean [[David Truman]] that they felt uncomfortable living with a homosexual."<ref name=eisenbach /> Apparently ambivalent, they offered Donaldson "great apologies and said they realized they shouldn't feel" unwilling to live with him.<ref name=nytimes67>{{Cite news | first=Murray | last=Schumach | title= Columbia Charters Homosexual Group | date=1967-05-03 | periodical = [[The New York Times]] | pages =1, 40 }}</ref>

In the summer of 1966, Donaldson began a relationship with gay activist [[Frank Kameny]], who had a great influence on him. Donaldson later wrote:

{{blockquote|Frank gave me a complete education both in homosexuality and in the homophile movement, instructing me also in how to respond to attacks from psychiatry, religion, the law, etc., etc. He largely shaped my gay ideology and continued to influence me even after I split with him ideologically in '68–'69.<ref name=eisenbach />}}

In August, Kameny took Donaldson to [[Cherry Grove, New York|Cherry Grove]] on [[Fire Island]], where he "was thrilled to meet another gay Columbia student [James Millham] and to learn that Millham lived with his lover, a [[New York University]] student, in one of Columbia's dormitories."<ref name=eisenbach />