Peter Robins
He was employed locally by a Rhodesian radio station in the Congo from 1959. He continued as a broadcaster in Central Africa in Rhodesia and in the Zambian copper belt up to 1964. In 1960, he met Robin Day who asked him to freelance as a journalist for the BBC. As a result, he was recruited in 1964 as a journalist to the BBC Radio at Portland Place, London. He remained with the BBC until his retirement in 1987, with a 4-year break as a senior journalist at London Broadcasting Company. Towards the end of his life Peter lived in Croydon.
In the early 1970s Peter was active in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, becoming chairman of CHE's London Group 9 and subsequently London Group 11.[1]
In 1972 he co-founded the Gay Writers Group (later the Gay Authors Workshop).[2]
From 1984 to 1989 Peter was chair of the Pimpernel group for older gay men in South London. For part of that time he was President of SLAGO; he gave the keynote speech in the SLAGO conference in 1999.[3]
Peter Robins has been described as "a man of great wit and some acerbity."[4]
He died on New Year's Eve 2016.
Works
Peter wrote many books on a gay theme from the early 70s, including:
- A coexisting heart
- Easy Stages
- Fabulous Tricks
- Gay Touch
- Our Hero Has Bad Breath
- Ruined Boys
- Stony Glances
- Summer Shorts
- Survivors
- Touching Harry
- Visits
- Undo your raincoats & laugh
External links
http://www.outuk.com/index.php?http://www.outuk.com/content/features/robins/ OutUK Interview with Peter Robins, 2002
References
- ↑ Peter Scott-Presland, Amiable Warriors Volume One, page 363.
- ↑ Peter Scott-Presland, Amiable Warriors Volume One, page 497.
- ↑ http://www.slago.org.uk/slago-conference/peterrobins.htm SLAGO Conference 1999: Opening address by Peter Robins
- ↑ Peter Scott-Presland, Amiable Warriors Volume One, page 448.
