13 Facts About Antony Grey

Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright, better known by his pseudonym Antony Grey, was an English LGBT rights activist.

Antony Grey was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire on 6 October 1927 to Alex Wright, a chartered accountant, and Gladys Rihan, who was half-Syrian.

Antony Grey began working as a journalist in Yorkshire before moving to London to study law.

Antony Grey began his career as an advocate for gay rights with a letter to the Sunday Times in 1954.

In 1958, Antony Grey started voluntary work for the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

Antony Grey became the Society's Honorary Treasurer in 1960 and its Secretary by the end of 1962, giving up his media career.

Antony Grey was an executive committee member of the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society and of the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Antony Grey appeared in the BBC Radio 4 documentary The BBC and the Closet in 2008.

Antony Grey met his life-partner Eric Thompson in 1960, seven years before male homosexual activities were decriminalised in England, and they lived together for 50 years.

Antony Grey died on 30 April 2010 at the King Edward VII hospital in London, after a long fight against leukaemia.

Antony Grey expressed specific wishes that his body should be cremated and his ashes scattered without any religious ceremony or memorial service.

Antony Grey was a prolific writer and media campaigner on a wide range of civil liberties issues.

In 1995, Antony Grey was awarded the Pink Paper Lifetime Achievement Award.