Keith Howes
(July 4, 1947 - living) U.K.
Historian and writer on broadcasting
Born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, he worked for Gay News continuously from the 1970s until the magazine closed in April 1983, in various capacities, in particular as its features editor. A series of interviews for Gay News from 1976 to 1983 were collected together in Outspoken.
From the 1970s he started writing a number of articles on film, broadcasting and theatre for mainstream and gay publications, and appeared on radio and television. He has curated special television presentations at both the London and Sydney Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals, and the many lectures he has given include "Who Do You Have To Sleep With To Get Happy Lesbians and Gays on TV?" and "Hot Potatoes in the Too Hard Basket (The Things Gays and Lesbians Don't Want To Talk About)".
His Broadcasting It, (1993), was nominated for the British Film Institute's Michael Powell Award, and in 1999 it was selected as one of the best gay books of the previous 25 years by Gay Times. His latest project is Moving Mountains: 2001 Nights of Non 100% Heterosexual Broadcasting, with a publication date in 2001.
He moved to Sydney and took up employment as a bush regenerator, helping to restore native plants, and animal/bird habitat in Sydney's bushland.
Writing:
- Broadcasting It: An Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality on Film, Radio and TV in the UK 1923-1993 (1993)
- Outspoken (1995)
Excerpts from: The Knitting Circle, U.K. - http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html
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