In 1967 the UK saw its first positive queer law reform – though it was not the radical step you might hope for. 1885’s Criminal Law Amendment Act had made what were deemed homosexual acts between men illegal – the law under which Oscar Wilde was famously imprisoned. By 1954 the number of men imprisoned each year under the 1885 law had risen to over one thousand. The bill was signed into law on 27 July, becoming the Sexual Offences Act 1967. Ironically the policing operations this was part of had been inspired by the 1967 Act – this was in the time where the discussion in prompted in the public and press led to stronger police action where the 1967 Act was broken.