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	He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This turned out to be the road where [[Esmé Langley]] lived at number 47. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.		He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later <ref> Eric Thompson died in December 2022 </ref>. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This turned out to be the road where [[Esmé Langley]] lived at number 47. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.

	Grey suffered from disabling ill health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.		Grey suffered from disabling ill health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.

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	He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This ~~was~~ the road ~~at the other end of which~~ [[Esmé Langley]] ~~then~~ lived at number 47. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.		He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This turned out to be the road where [[Esmé Langley]] lived at number 47. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.

	Grey suffered from disabling health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.		Grey suffered from disabling ill health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.

	Grey's papers are deposited in the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]] at the London School of Economics.		Grey's papers are deposited in the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]] at the London School of Economics.

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	He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This was the road at the other end of which [[Esmé Langley]] then lived. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.		He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death fifty years later. In 2008 they became civil partners. They had difficulty finding a place to live together at first, but in 1961 eventually found a flat at 121 Broadhurst Gardens, [[West Hampstead]]. This was the road at the other end of which [[Esmé Langley]] then lived at number 47. Sixty years earlier, [[Frederick Rolfe]] (Baron Corvo) had lived at number 69 when he wrote ''Hadrian the Seventh'';<ref>The Pink Plaque Guide to London, <Michael Elliman and Frederick Poll, 1986, page 169 </ref> and subsequently [[Laurence Collinson]], playwright, transactional analyst, and prominent member of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] lived at 123.

	Grey suffered from disabling health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.		Grey suffered from disabling health from November 2004, but nevertheless managed to visit Italy in 2008 with [[Andrew Lumsden]], who described the holiday in his book ''Souvenirs of Sirmione''.<ref>''Souvenirs of Sirmione'' with drawings by David Shelton, One Roof Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9535824-5-7, pages 65-89</ref>.

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	[[File:AEGW 60s medium.jpg\|thumb\|Antony Grey in the 1960s]]'''Antony Grey''' (1927–2010, real name '''Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright''') was an English gay rights activist. He was born in [[Gatley]], [[Cheshire]], but his family moved to [[Sheffield]] when he was nine. After graduating in history at Magdalene College [[Cambridge]] in 1948, he worked as a sub-editor on the ''Yorkshire Post'' before moving to London to work as a press officer at the British Iron and Steel Federation in 1949. This gave him experience of parliamentary and media lobbying, and while there he read for the bar. Although admitted as a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1957, he never practised at the bar but remained at the Federation until 1961. After leaving it, he worked briefly in public relations at the London Press Exchange.		[[File:AEGW 60s medium.jpg\|thumb\|Antony Grey in the 1960s]]'''Antony Grey''' (1927–2010, real name '''Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright''') was an English gay rights activist. He was born in [[Gatley]], [[Cheshire]], but his family moved to [[Sheffield]] when he was nine. After graduating in history at [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] in 1948, he worked as a sub-editor on the ''Yorkshire Post'' before moving to London to work as a press officer at the British Iron and Steel Federation in 1949. This gave him experience of parliamentary and media lobbying, and while there he read for the bar. Although admitted as a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1957, he never practised at the bar but remained at the Federation until 1961. After leaving it, he worked briefly in public relations at the London Press Exchange.

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	[[File:AG02.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Antony Grey in later life]]In 1958, he began volunteering for the [[Homosexual Law Reform Society]] (HLRS), becoming its Honorary Treasurer in 1960, and Secretary of the HLRS and the [[Albany Trust]] in 1962. At that time it was thought inappropriate for an openly gay man to hold this position and, also following his mother's request that he should not use the family name and embarrass his father and their family circle in Sheffield, he adopted the pseudonym Antony Grey – chosen as "there are few entirely black-and-white issues in life" <ref> ''Personal Tapestry'', 2008, pages 110 and 116 </ref> – for use in his gay campaigning activities.		[[File:AG02.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Antony Grey in later life]]In 1958, he began volunteering for the [[Homosexual Law Reform Society]] (HLRS), becoming its Honorary Treasurer in 1960, and Secretary of the HLRS and the [[Albany Trust]] in 1962. At that time it was thought inappropriate for an openly gay man to hold this position and, also following his mother's request that he should not use the family name and embarrass his father and their family circle in Sheffield, he adopted the pseudonym Antony Grey – chosen as "there are few entirely black-and-white issues in life" <ref> ''Personal Tapestry'', 2008, pages 110 and 116 </ref> – for use in his gay campaigning activities.

	He campaigned tirelessly for the decriminalisation of gay sex, as advocated in the [[Wolfenden Report]], organising support for the various attempts at law reform, culminating in the passing of the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]]. Though it was a major step forward, Grey always regretted the compromises made in getting the act through parliament. While what was then the Sexual Offences (No 2) Bill was going through the Commons, Grey published an article in the February 1967 issue of ''Arena Three'' - the publication of the Sexual Minorities Research Group - deploring what was being proposed and saying that "the more one considers the details of Mr Abse's bill the less adequate it appears". While regretting the exclusion of the armed forces and members of the merchant navy, he laid particular stress on the bad effects of the high age limit of 21 on teenage homosexuals, the dangers presented by the ambiguous nature of the offence of procurement, and the restrictive definition of privacy. This, he warned, "could quite easily prove as oppressive, and as conducive to blackmail, as the original Labouchère Amendment of 1885". Overall, he concluded that the bill, "welcome though it is, remains a woefully hesitant step towards that comprehensive overhaul of all our laws and attitudes about sex ('normal' or 'abnormal') which is called for in the second half of the twentieth century". <ref> reprinted in Antony Grey, ''Speaking Out: Writings on Sex, Law, Politics and Society 1954-95, Cassell, 1997'', pp 13-15</ref>		He campaigned tirelessly for the decriminalisation of gay sex, as advocated in the [[Wolfenden Report]], organising support for the various attempts at law reform, culminating in the passing of the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]]. Though it was a major step forward, Grey always regretted the compromises made in getting the act through parliament. While what was then the Sexual Offences (No 2) Bill was going through the Commons, Grey published an article in the February 1967 issue of ''Arena Three'' - the publication of the Sexual Minorities Research Group - deploring what was being proposed and saying that "the more one considers the details of Mr Abse's bill the less adequate it appears". While regretting the exclusion of the armed forces and members of the merchant navy, he laid particular stress on the bad effects of the high age limit of 21 on teenage homosexuals, the dangers presented by the ambiguous nature of the offence of procurement, and the restrictive definition of privacy. This, he warned, "could quite easily prove as oppressive, and as conducive to blackmail, as the original Labouchère Amendment of 1885". Overall, he concluded that the bill, "welcome though it is, remains a woefully hesitant step towards that comprehensive overhaul of all our laws and attitudes about sex ('normal' or 'abnormal') which is called for in the second half of the twentieth century". <ref> reprinted in Antony Grey, ''Speaking Out: Writings on Sex, Law, Politics and Society 1954-95,'' Cassell, 1997, pp 13-15</ref>

	In the ''New Oxford History of England'',<ref> ''Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009, page 243</ref> Sir Brian Harrison observes that "his rare combination of high-serious commitment, shrewd political effectiveness, and total lack of self advertisement was precious indeed" to the campaign for law reform.		In the ''New Oxford History of England'',<ref> ''Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009, page 243</ref> Sir Brian Harrison observes that "his rare combination of high-serious commitment, shrewd political effectiveness, and total lack of self advertisement was precious indeed" to the campaign for law reform.

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	[[File:AG02.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Antony Grey in later life]]In 1958, he began volunteering for the [[Homosexual Law Reform Society]] (HLRS), becoming its Honorary Treasurer in 1960, and Secretary of the HLRS and the [[Albany Trust]] in 1962. At that time it was thought inappropriate for an openly gay man to hold this position and, also following his mother's request that he should not use the family name and embarrass his father and their family circle in Sheffield, he adopted the pseudonym Antony Grey – chosen as "there are few entirely black-and-white issues in life" <ref> ''Personal Tapestry'', 2008, pages 110 and 116 </ref> – for use in his gay campaigning activities.		[[File:AG02.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Antony Grey in later life]]In 1958, he began volunteering for the [[Homosexual Law Reform Society]] (HLRS), becoming its Honorary Treasurer in 1960, and Secretary of the HLRS and the [[Albany Trust]] in 1962. At that time it was thought inappropriate for an openly gay man to hold this position and, also following his mother's request that he should not use the family name and embarrass his father and their family circle in Sheffield, he adopted the pseudonym Antony Grey – chosen as "there are few entirely black-and-white issues in life" <ref> ''Personal Tapestry'', 2008, pages 110 and 116 </ref> – for use in his gay campaigning activities.

	He campaigned tirelessly for the decriminalisation of gay sex, as advocated in the [[Wolfenden Report]], organising support for the various attempts at law reform, culminating in the passing of the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]]. Though it was a major step forward, Grey always regretted the compromises made in getting the act through parliament.		He campaigned tirelessly for the decriminalisation of gay sex, as advocated in the [[Wolfenden Report]], organising support for the various attempts at law reform, culminating in the passing of the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]]. Though it was a major step forward, Grey always regretted the compromises made in getting the act through parliament. While what was then the Sexual Offences (No 2) Bill was going through the Commons, Grey published an article in the February 1967 issue of ''Arena Three'' - the publication of the Sexual Minorities Research Group - deploring what was being proposed and saying that "the more one considers the details of Mr Abse's bill the less adequate it appears". While regretting the exclusion of the armed forces and members of the merchant navy, he laid particular stress on the bad effects of the high age limit of 21 on teenage homosexuals, the dangers presented by the ambiguous nature of the offence of procurement, and the restrictive definition of privacy. This, he warned, "could quite easily prove as oppressive, and as conducive to blackmail, as the original Labouchère Amendment of 1885". Overall, he concluded that the bill, "welcome though it is, remains a woefully hesitant step towards that comprehensive overhaul of all our laws and attitudes about sex ('normal' or 'abnormal') which is called for in the second half of the twentieth century". <ref> reprinted in Antony Grey, ''Speaking Out: Writings on Sex, Law, Politics and Society 1954-95, Cassell, 1997'', pp 13-15</ref>

	In the ''New Oxford History of England'',<ref> ''Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009, page 243</ref> Sir Brian Harrison observes that "his rare combination of high-serious commitment, shrewd political effectiveness, and total lack of self advertisement was precious indeed" to the campaign for law reform.		In the ''New Oxford History of England'',<ref> ''Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009, page 243</ref> Sir Brian Harrison observes that "his rare combination of high-serious commitment, shrewd political effectiveness, and total lack of self advertisement was precious indeed" to the campaign for law reform.

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	In 1998 he was awarded the [[Pink Paper Lifetime Achievement Award]] and in 2007 he was elected as Hero of the Year by [[Stonewall]] supporters.		In 1998 he was awarded the [[Pink Paper Lifetime Achievement Award]] and in 2007 he was elected as Hero of the Year by [[Stonewall]] supporters.

			He was included under "Unsung heroes" in the ''Independent on Sunday'''s [[Pink List 2008]]. The citation said:
			:"Antony Grey, former secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, which won a change in the law in 1967. He argued, unsuccessfully, for equalising the age of consent for gay people to 16, in line with heterosexuals, when the law was changed in 1994. The age of consent for gay men was eventually lowered to 16 in 2001. Now in his 80s, Mr Grey has never received an honour. "<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2008-852032.html</ref>

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