Johannes Dörrast
Johannes Dörrast was a German Youth Movement leader, writer, and gay rights activist. Youth Movement work and arrest. During the Weimar era, Dörrast was involved in the German Youth Movement, producing a journal for the movement in the 1930s. After World War II, Dörrast worked as secretary for the West German Scouts () until he was arrested for breaking Paragraph 175, the German law that criminalised sex between men. Gay rights activism. In 1951, Dörrast became involved in the homophile movement in Germany, and founded a gay rights organisation, the Club of Friends ("Club der Freunde") in May 1951 . That same month, he released the first issue of "Die Freunde" ("The Friends"), which included "a short story about a sexual adventure on the Mediterranean, pictures of nude men running and playing sports, an essay on male beauty, and a second essay outlining a Kantian critique of Paragraph 175". It was one of the first postwar gay magazines. A number of contributors to "Die Freunde" had previous experience with the gay rights movement in Weimar Germany. As editor-in-chief of "Die Freunde", Dörrast was repeatedly prosecuted under the () of West Germany. Even when he removed all images of nude  men from the magazine, the magazine was prohibited by the city government to be delivered by mail. Dörrast renamed the magazine "Freond". However, this re-branding was unsuccessful and the magazine was no longer viable by 1952.