Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright
Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright (Magdalene, 1945) was known to many as Antony Grey, a pseudonym that he adopted in 1962 when he became secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, following his mother's request that he not use the family name and embarrass his father and their family circle in Sheffield.
Antony’s many years of LGBT+ campaigning included running the Albany Trust, founded in 1958 to help sexual minorities traumatized by their situation, serving on the executive board of the National Council for Civil Liberties, and on the executive board of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. His publications included Quest for Justice (1992), the standard account of the 1967 reform of the law on male homosexuality, Speaking of Sex (1993), and Speaking Out (1997), a selection of his published articles. He also wrote 'Personal Tapestry' (2008), a privately circulated memoir of his family and life. He was a pioneering interviewee on gay issues on radio, and also on television, including both an interview so early that he was required to appear in black silhouette and a 1970s Panorama discussion.
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A recipient of a Pink Paper lifetime achievement award, and a Stonewall hero of the year, he lived to enjoy a civil partnership ceremony with Eric Thompson on 22 December 2005, celebrating a relationship that had initially been criminal when they got together in 1960. Antony died on 30 April 2010.