Jump to content

Ray Gosling: Difference between revisions

From LGBT History Project
Ross Burgess (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
Ross Burgess (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
[[File:Ray.Gosling.jpg|thumb|right|Ray Gosling, speaking at [[The Brief Encounter (Croydon)]], 2 December 2008]]'''Ray Gosling''' (1939–2013) was a journalist, broadcaster, and gay rights activist. He was brought up in [[Northampton]] and attended [[Leicester]] University, but lived mainly in [[Nottingham]] for most of his life.
[[File:Ray.Gosling.jpg|thumb|right|Ray Gosling, speaking at [[The Brief Encounter (Croydon)]], 2 December 2008]]'''Ray Gosling''' (1939–2013) was a journalist, broadcaster, and gay rights activist. He was brought up in [[Northampton]] and attended [[Leicester]] University, but lived mainly in [[Nottingham]] for most of his life.


He wrote and presented more than 100 television documentaries, and was a long-term presenter on the <cite>Inside Out</cite> programme for BBC East Midlands.
He wrote and presented more than 100 television documentaries, and was a long-term presenter on the <cite>Inside Out</cite> programme for BBC East Midlands.
Line 17: Line 17:
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:2013 deaths]]
[[Category:2013 deaths]]
[[Category:1939 births]]

Revision as of 22:46, 30 December 2013

Ray Gosling, speaking at The Brief Encounter (Croydon), 2 December 2008

Ray Gosling (1939–2013) was a journalist, broadcaster, and gay rights activist. He was brought up in Northampton and attended Leicester University, but lived mainly in Nottingham for most of his life.

He wrote and presented more than 100 television documentaries, and was a long-term presenter on the Inside Out programme for BBC East Midlands.

He was an active member of CHE, along with Allan Horsfall, from its beginnings, and remained one of its vice-presidents until his death.

In latter years Allan Horsfall and Ray Gosling ran Gay Monitor seeking justice for men wrongly accused of sexual abuse.

In 2011 he confessed on television to having used a pillow, many years before, to suffocate a former lover who had been dying in terrible pain from AIDS. He was arrested on suspicion of murder, but released without being charged, and later given a suspended sentence for wasting police time.

Ray Gosling died in November 2013, aged 74.[1]

References

<references>