Editing Stephen Donaldson (activist) (section)

====Struggle with Columbia for charter====
That fall, Donaldson suggested to Millham "that they form a Mattachine-like organization on campus, what he envisioned as 'the first chapter of a spreading confederation of student [[homophile movement|homophile]] groups.'"<ref name=Beemyn2003>{{cite journal
 | last = Beemyn
 | first = Brett
 | year = 2003
 | title = The Silence Is Broken
 | journal = Journal of the History of Sexuality
 | volume = 12
 | pages = 205–223
 | url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v012/12.2beemyn.html
 | access-date = 2008-03-16
 | doi=10.1353/sex.2003.0075
| s2cid = 143126800
 }}</ref> At first, Donaldson was unable to gain official recognition for the [[Student Homophile League]] (SHL) (now called the [[Columbia Queer Alliance]]), as Columbia required a membership list. Donaldson and Millham were the only queer students willing to provide their names.<ref name=eisenbach /> This prevented the group from receiving university funding or holding public events on campus until Donaldson realized that by "recruiting the most prominent student leaders to become ''pro forma'' members, he could satisfy the administration without compromising the anonymity of gay students, and Columbia officially chartered the country's first student gay rights group on April 19, 1967,"<ref name=Beemyn2003 /> and subsequently the first known [[LGBT student movement]].