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Antony Grey (19277–2010, real name Edgar Wright) was an English gay rights activist.
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, so he concealed his homosexuality, and adopted the name Antony Grey 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.
In 1970 he became secretary of the Sexual Law Society (successor to the HLRS). He was Director of the Abany Trust from 1971 to 1977.
In 1998 he was awarded the Pink Paper Lifetime Achievement Award.
He met his partner, Eric Thompson, in 1960 and they lived together until Antony Grey's death. In 2008 they became civil partners.
