Terence Arthur Sanderson[1] (16 November 1946 – 12 June 2022) was a leading British secularist and gay rights activist, author, and journalist.

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.

[4] Moving to London in the early 1970s, Sanderson worked as a disability support worker or other similar jobs,[3] and on the Woman's Own.

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".

[7] In 2015 his autobiography The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual was published and then revised with a new epilogue in 2021 as The Reluctant Gay Activist following his diagnosis and treatment for bladder cancer.