Straight Jacket

Matthew Todd is one of the UKs leading gay writers. He was the editor of the UK's bestselling gay magazine Attitude between 2008 and 2016 where he won three British Society of Magazine Editors Editor of the Year Awards a Stonewall Journalist of the Year Award and was given the Freedom of the City of London. Prince William made history by sitting for the cover of Matthew's final issue as editor. Matthew's first book Straight Jacket was voted Boyz LGBT Book of the Year 2017 and has been called 'an essential read for every gay person on the planet' by Sir Elton John 'utterly brilliant' by Owen Jones and as 'game changing' and 'life saving' by readers. He has written for national newspapers including the Guardian Observer Telegraph and Sun. He appears regularly on TV and radio and is a regular speaker at conferences and events including the Terrence Higgins Trust HIV Prevention CHAPS conference. He lives in London. His work appears in This Is Not A Drill (Penguin) Letters to the Earth (Harper Collins) and The Queer Bible (HQ). His second book PRIDE: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement (Welbeck) is out now. . Language: English