Terry Sanderson: GAY TIMES Magazine’s longest serving columnist and LGBTQ+ rights activist – obituary
We are sad to report that Terry Sanderson, GAY TIMES Magazine’s longest serving columnist, died aged 75 on 12 June 2022. This appreciation of Terry’s life is written by his partner of 40 years, Keith Porteous Wood.
They became civil partners in 2006 after being together for 25 years. As Keith said: “Love at first sight to nursing him to his last, with barely a day not spent together.” As the HIV/AIDS pandemic was starting to take hold in 1983, GAY TIMES Magazine commissioned Terry to write a monthly feature about the media’s shameless outpourings of hatred of gay people.
It was called MediaWatch, which Terry continued to write for 25 years. Words by Keith Porteous Wood Terry took his brief very seriously and read every newspaper over that quarter of a century.
And that was quite an undertaking when none were online. All this reading – the principal offenders were The Sun, Mail, Express and News of the World – gave him plenty of material to complain to media regulators, and often also about the media regulators.
