Antony Grey

The 1957 Wolfenden Report recommended decriminalising private sex between men over 21, and then governments did nothing for a decade. Grey, who worked under that pseudonym to protect his family, ran the Homosexual Law Reform Society through most of those years, lobbying MPs and peers, briefing journalists and keeping the report's recommendation alive. The result was the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which applied only to England and Wales, set the age of consent at 21 and kept many prosecutions possible. Grey spent the following decades pushing for what it left out, a reminder that a landmark law can be a starting point.