Bisexual Rights Activists - Stephen Donaldson, Sheela Lambert, Kyle Schickner, Robyn Ochs, Brenda Howard, Tom Limoncelli, Ron Suresha (Paperback)

Chapters: Stephen Donaldson, Sheela Lambert, Kyle Schickner, Robyn Ochs, Brenda Howard, Tom Limoncelli, Ron Suresha, Fritz Klein, Wendy Curry, Loraine Hutchins, Lani Ka'ahumanu, Gary North. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Donaldson (July 27, 1946 July 18, 1996), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist. He is best known for his pioneering activism in gay liberation and prison reform, but also for his writing about punk rock and subculture. The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany. Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who "frowned on display of emotion" and his mother Lois as "an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive." After his parents' divorce in 1953 when he was twenty-four years old, Donaldson's mother was diagnosed with the mental disorder porphyria and abandoned her two sons. She did not contact them again until 1964. At age twelve, Donaldson was expelled from the Boy Scouts for consensual sexual behavior with other boys (who, as recipients, were not punished). "The disgrace triggered a family crisis, resolved by sending the boy to live in Germany, where he could be watched over by his stepmother's relatives." He continued homosexual activity, hiding it from adults. "In April 1962, at the age of fifteen, Donny returned to the United States to live with his grandparents in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In high school he was news editor of the school paper, an actor, and a student government officer. He also became active in politics as a libertaria...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=860