R D Reid

Dr R D Reid (Robert Reid) was an early gay campaigner.

Dr Reid was convicted of importuning in the 1930s, and followed it up with letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury urging church support for law reform. He raised the issue again in the the Daily Telegraph in 1953, only to be drowned in a chorus of moral outrage.

Following the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957, he wrote to The Spectator complaining of what he called "pogroms" by the police against gay men. The letter provoked a number of replies, including one from Tony Dyson who went on to found the Homosexual Law Reform Society.