Films by Jan Rothstein

Germany 2011
by Jan Rothstein, Stefan Westerwelle

Detlef Stoffel, once a leading activist in West Germany’s raucous gay-rights movement, is pushing 60. “Sixty is old. Especially for a gay guy.” It’s time for Detlef to look back on a time when his life was wild and exhilarating and yet simple. From his very first love in Miami to putting Bielefeld on the gay-rights map, Detlef recalls his youth, and the thrill of shocking the public through his radical demonstrations and lifestyle. In the 1970s, at a time when West German gays and lesbians were