Elmar Kraushaar (born 11 August 1950) is a German journalist and

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who lives in

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Biography

Kraushaar was born in Niederurff in northern

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. He studied from 1971 to 1979 in Berlin at

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. In the 1970s, during his university studies, he joined the

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organisation ''Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin''. As author Kraushaar began to write on

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topics, including some works with

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. Kraushaar has worked as a journalist for Germany's longest running LGBT periodical

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out of Berlin, for the newspaper

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(taz), and for

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. In 1990 Kraushaar became a journalist for RIAS TV, then worked at

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. His column ''Der homosexuelle Mann...'' has run in taz since 1995.

Works by Kraushaar, in German

* ''Männer, Liebe – ein Handbuch für Schwule und alle, die es werden wollen''. Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1982. * ''Rote Lippen – die ganze Welt des deutschen Schlagers''. Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1983. * ''Die ungleichen Brüder. Zum Verhältnis zwischen schwulen und heterosexuellen Männern''. Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek 1988. (together with Matthias T. J. Grimme) * article - in:

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(Ed.): ''Die Linke und ihr Laster – schwule Emanzipation und linke Vorurteile''. Hamburg, MännerschwarmSkriptverlag, 1995. * ''Schwule Listen – Namen, Daten und Geschichten''. Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1994. * ''Hundert Jahre schwul – eine Revue.'' Berlin, Rowohlt, 1997. * ''Der homosexuelle Mann … – Anmerkungen und Beobachtungen aus zwei Jahrzehnten''. Hamburg, MännerschwarmSkriptverlag, 2004.

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