Patrick Strudwick is a multi-award-winning British journalist, columnist, broadcaster and activist.

Journalism career

He writes for a variety of different newspapers and magazines, including The Observer

The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...

, The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

, The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

, Gay Times

Gay Times

Gay Times is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazine for gay and bisexual men.-Publication and content:...

 and Attitude

Attitude (magazine)

Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Vitality Publishing. It is sold worldwide as a physical magazine and a digital download for the iPad and iPhone via the App Store. The first issue appeared in May 1994....

. He is best known for writing about gay issues, health and music, and for interviewing celebrities.

From 2002–2008 he was a senior contributing editor and columnist at Attitude

Attitude (magazine)

Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Vitality Publishing. It is sold worldwide as a physical magazine and a digital download for the iPad and iPhone via the App Store. The first issue appeared in May 1994....

, before moving to Gay Times

Gay Times

Gay Times is one of the United Kingdom's leading gay magazine for gay and bisexual men.-Publication and content:...

where he is currently a contributing editor and political columnist.

In February 2010, Strudwick published "The Ex-Gay Files: The Bizarre World of Gay-to-Straight Conversion" in The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

, chronicling a year of undercover investigation of conversion therapy: therapists – some operating within the British National Health Service – claiming to be able to "convert" gays and lesbians to heterosexuality http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-exgay-files-the-bizarre-world-of-gaytostraight-conversion-1884947.html. Following the publication of the article and the outrage it provoked around the world, Strudwick started the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT)http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=284213565804&ref=search&sid=508292471.1876454728..1#!/group.php?v=info&ref=search&gid=284213565804. SCOTT aims to eradicate the attempts by therapists, psychiatrists and religious groups to "cure" gay people.

Following Strudwick's investigation the British Medical Association passed a motion condemning attempts by psychotherapists and psychiatrists to change a patient's sexual orientation, and calling on the National Health Service to investigate instances where they may have inadvertently paid for such "treatment".

He was named 62nd most influential gay person in Britain by the Independent on Sunday's annual Pink List.

Broadcasting

Strudwick is a regular on live discussion programmes for television and radio. He has appeared on BBC News,Sky News, ITN, Radio 4's The Moral Maze, Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, Radio 5's Stephen Nolan show, Richard and Judy and RTÉ Radio 1.

Awards

• Journalist of the Year at the Stonewall Awards 2010
• Highly Commended, Journalist of the Year, at the Mind Awards 2010
• Winner of the Best National Newspaper Feature at the Guild of Health Writers Awards 2010
• British winner of the EU Journalist Award 2010

Interviews

His interviews with celebrities include Bjork

Björk

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, Grace Jones

Grace Jones

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, Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez

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, k d lang, Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

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, Graham Norton

Graham Norton

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, Julian Clary

Julian Clary

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, Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell

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, Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson

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, Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud

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, Aura Urziceanu, Lily Allen

Lily Allen

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, Henry Badenhorst

Henry Badenhorst

Henry Badenhorst is the co-founder of the Gaydar Radio website. In May, 2007, Badenhorst was named by the Independent on Sunday Pink List the fourth most influential gay person in the United Kingdom, down from the 3rd place the previous year....

, Alan Duncan

Alan Duncan

Alan James Carter Duncan is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, and a Minister of State in the Department for International Development....

, Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys

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, Jerry Hall

Jerry Hall

Jerry Faye Hall is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children.-Early life:...

, Jordan

Jordan

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, Bat for Lashes

Bat for Lashes

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, Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

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, Boy George

Boy George

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, Estelle

Estelle (musician)

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, Preston and Duffy

Duffy (singer)

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