Patrick Strudwick

Patrick Strudwick is a gay journalist, contributing editor and political columnist for Gay Times. He has appeared on radio and TV programmes, and he writes about gay issues, health and music for newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, The Times, The Guardian, and The Independent.

In February 2010, his article "The Ex-Gay Files: The Bizarre World of Gay-to-Straight Conversion" was published in The Independent; Strudwick had spent a year under cover investigating therapists – some operating within the NHS – who claimed to "cure" gays and lesbians. The outrage following the publica¬tion of the article prompted him to set up the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT), which aims to eradicate attempts by therapists, psychiatrists and religious groups to turn gay people straight.