An award-winning journalist who set up the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT) following an undercover sting into therapists attempting to “cure” homosexuality will speak at an open meeting tonight.
Patrick Strudwick, a contributing editor and columnist for Gay Times, who has also written for The Observer, The Times, The Guardian and The Independent is at The Spreadeagle pub, in Katharine Street, Croydon, from 8pm.
In 2010, his work on therapists offering gay conversion was published in The Independent and prompted the establishment of SCOTT, aiming to eradicate attempts by therapists, psychiatrists and religious groups to turn gay people straight.
The meeting is organised by Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS) as one of a series of talks called "The Brief Encounter".
It is free of charge and open to all.
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