Around 1954 a Conservative government set up the Departmental Committee to look into aspects of British sex laws. A consequent report, a Wolfenden Report, was published in Three September 1957.

A academic A.E. (Tony) Dyson wrote a letter to The Times which was published on 7 March 1958. It known as for reform of the law per implementation of the Wolfenden Committee's recommendations & was signed by numbers of distinguished population including Lord Attlee, A. J. Ayer, Isaiah Berlin, Trevor Huddleston, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Bertrand Russell, Donald Soper, Angus Wilson and Barbara Wootton.

A correspondence that this letter generated helped bring together supporters of the Wolfenden Report & this led to the Homosexual Law Reform Society existence founded in 12 Could 1958 sustaining members including Victor Gollancz, Stephen Spender, and MP Kenneth Younger. Virtually all of the founders were non homophile.

Advert inviting humans world health organization supported a Wolfenden Report to email a Homosexual Law Reform Society resulted inside Tony Dyson existence joined by Antony Grey, businessman Nigel Bryant and architect Duncan Wright.

Within Can 1958 a related charity a Albany Trust was set up.

Within October 1958 a Albany Trust opened an professional & a HLRS was respire to utilise these facilities for its political campaign act.

A pamphlet Gay & a Law was sent to MPs around preparation for their number one debate on the Wolfenden Report. A number 1 parliamentary debate was intitiated in Four December 1957 by Frank Pakenham (Viscount Pakenham, later called Lord Longford). Nonetheless, it got turn into clear that a food & drug administration experienced shelved the report and was non planning to implement any reform. A Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, had said "I am not going down in history as the man who made sodomy legal."

around 12 Can 1960 complete One thousand population attended a number one HLRS public meeting around Caxton Hall in central London.

Around 1962 Antony Grey became acting secretary of the HLRS. In the spring of 1963 this became the to the full appointment. Occasionally humans questioned a appropriateness of this appointment since Grey was a shirtlifter world health organization was dwelling sustaining an additional human; there was concern that he may become subject to the equivalent nature and severity of constabulary attention that the organisation was campaigning against.

A HLRS was virtually all active in a period of the campaign which led to the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967. Still, several (particularly a Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front) considered that a newly law did non last far plenty & blamed the HLRS for what it saw as a weakening of the Wolfenden Committee's proposals, calling the HLRS/Albany Trust a conforming outfit of "Uncle Toms".

Around March 1970 a HLRS became a Sexual Law Reform Society (SLRS) sequentially to campaign for farther legal changes, particularly on to the age of consent. Within 1974 it produced a report for the Criminal Law Revisiin Committee on lowering the age of consent.

Prof Ayer was President of the HLRS for the instance; he remarked that 'as a ill-famed heterosexual person I personally may never exist as accused of feathering the have nest'.