15 Facts About Ray Gosling

Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.

Ray Gosling wrote and presented several hundred television and radio documentaries and regional programmes for BBC Radio 4 and Granada Television from the 1960s to 1980s on quirky aspects of life in different British towns and cities.

Ray Gosling was briefly arrested, but the claims were false and he was later given a suspended sentence for wasting police time.

Ray Gosling moved to Nottingham while in his twenties, and became a detached outreach youth worker in the St Ann's district.

Ray Gosling first worked in radio when he was interviewed as a campaigner for tenants' rights in Nottingham.

Ray Gosling was then commissioned to record a series of talks, mostly interviews with what were called "ordinary people", broadcast during intermissions of classical musical recitals on BBC radio.

The value of Ray Gosling's work was recognised by Nottingham Trent University in 2005, when it stepped in to save "an amazing treasure trove of groundbreaking TV and radio work which was in danger of being lost forever".

Ray Gosling was an early pioneer of the modern British gay rights movement, first becoming involved in the 1950s, and working with Allan Horsfall in the North West Homosexual Law Reform Committee of the late 1960s, which later became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

Horsfall and Ray Gosling ran a website together called Gay Monitor which is partly a history of CHE and partly an account of more recent cases of discrimination against gay men.

Ray Gosling was declared bankrupt in 2000, and was stated to be living in poverty in 2002.

On Inside Out on 15 February 2010, Ray Gosling said he had used a pillow to suffocate a former lover.

Ray Gosling said that the "young chap" was dying from AIDS and in "terrible, terrible pain", and did not say whether this had been agreed beforehand.

Ray Gosling was arrested on suspicion of murder on 17 February 2010, and released on police bail the following day without being charged.

Ray Gosling was found to have fabricated the claim and had not been in the UK at the time of the death.

Ray Gosling died, aged 74, at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on 19 November 2013.