Terry Sanderson

Terry Sanderson (born 1946) is a leading UK secularist and gay rights activist, author and journalist. He became president of the National Secular Society in 2006 and is a long-standing columnist for Gay Times. Born to a mining family in a South Yorkshire village, Sanderson came out as gay after starting work in Rotherham at the age of 17. His parents found out after reading an interview with Sanderson in a local newspaper, concerning his booking... more

Terry Sanderson (born 1946) is a leading UK secularist and gay rights activist, author and journalist. He became president of the National Secular Society in 2006 and is a long-standing columnist for Gay Times. Born to a mining family in a South Yorkshire village, Sanderson came out as gay after starting work in Rotherham at the age of 17. His parents found out after reading an interview with Sanderson in a local newspaper, concerning his booking a venue for a meeting of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Moving to London in the early 1970s, Sanderson worked as a counsellor and psychiatric nurse, and on the problem page of Woman's Own. Sanderson began campaigning for gay rights in 1969. His MediaWatch columns for Gay Times have been a feature since 1982, and were described as "probably the most informative record of the extent of press homophobia in the UK in the 1980s" . In 1986, after experiencing problems with a Christian-owned publisher, Sanderson established The Other Way... less