The name is Stephen Donaldson. First, he founded an original college student organization for gay people called Student Homophile League in 1967. After Donaldson came out bisexual, he began to experience biphobia from some gay students and teachers that he helped with organization that he found. Second, he later left to join the military. There he was given a dishonarable discharge for "homosexuality." Once again, he experienced Bisexual Erasure for being assumed gay.
The good news is that he did not give up completely in the face of discrimination. He found an open minded group called Community of Friends on Bisexuality, a Quaker group. He shared his original vision in hopes to confront future biphobia. Together, Donaldson and the Quaker group created the Ithaca Statement on Bisexuality. It appeared in the Advocate, a gay magazine.
For some, it was visibility.... For others, it was Bisexual conscienceness.... For us all, it was June 1972.
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