Hans-Georg Stümke

He returned to school to complete his secondary education and enrolled at the Free University of Berlin to study history.

In the early 1960s, he came out as a gay man, and he was an LGBT activist in the 1970s.

Stümke was among the first to report in West Germany about the Stonewall riots in New York City, which helped spark the founding of the nationwide gay rights movement.

His humorous travel guide to Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria, went through numerous printings in German and was translated into English.

He died of cancer in 2002 and is buried in the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof cemetery in Berlin.