Terry Sanderson

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Sanderson, Terry (17 November 1946 - )

Sanderson, who was born in Rotherham in the north of England, has been living in London for the past twenty-six years.

A long-time secularist and atheist campaigner who is the 12th president of the British National Secular Society (NSS). He has begun the process of reviving the organization, started in 1866 by Charles Bradlaugh. (The Wall Street Journal has reported that the NSS has gained a “new vibrancy”).

Terry is also a long-time gay rights campaigner, having written a column for the leading British gay magazine Gay Times (now GT) for 25 years – the longest-running column in any gay publication in the world. He is a frequent broadcaster and writes widely for journals such as the Guardian and Independent.

He has also published several self-help books for gay people, including the seminal and best-selling How to be a Happy Homosexual (1989), which has been through six editions and in print continuously for 27 years. It has now been optioned by a TV company for dramatization. He also wrote: Making Gay Relationships Work (1990), Assertively Gay (1993), The A-Z of Gay Sex (1994), The Gay Man’s Kama Sutra (2004), and the Potts Papers (1996), a comic novel that satirises both religion and homosexuality.

“Religion,” he has written, is “a potent enemy of the lesbian and gay community,” and he has urged the Humanist movement to take a firmer stand on gay and lesbian rights.