Fan CastingDonny the Punk

A biopic of Bisexual Activist and Prison Reform Advocate Stephen Donaldson or Donny the Punk. In the late 60s and Early 70s Stephen Donaldson (born Robert Anthony Martin Jr.) was a prominent gay rights activist. While attending Columbia University he founded the Student Homophile League (SHL) the first student gay rights group in the country. He was also a call boy who claimed to have Roy Cohn and Rock Hudson as clients. But everything changed in 1966 when he met and fell in love with Judith “JD Rabbit” Jones who would become his lifetime companion. Shocked at the overt biphobia held by the gay rights and liberation movement at the time he left the gay liberation movement and started to become a bisexual activist. In 1973 he was arrested and thrown into a D.C. prison for leading an anti-war march. There he was raped dozens of times by 45 men so severely that he had to have surgery and be hospitalized for a week. This led him on a new crusade against prison rape and he became president of the organization Stop Prisoner Rape Inc. He continued to fight for those two causes and write about Punk and Subculture until his death from AIDS in 1996 at the age of 49.