Rolf Gindorf - Focus: Homosexuality

Focus: Homosexuality

One of the first post-war openly gay political campaigners, he made his own homosexuality public in a magazine article in 1964. In 1971 he founded one of the nation's first post-war gay lobbying organizations, the "Düsseldorfer Arbeitskreis Homosexualität und Gesellschaft", successfully lobbying for sex education reforms in schools. In 1976 he organized and conducted Germany's first gay/lesbian courses at public Adult Education Colleges ("Learning To Be Gay!"). - Subsequently concentrating on gay counseling and research, he remained a friendly, and sometimes participating, observer of new generations of gay activists.