The Criminal Law Amendment Act was passed on the 14th of August, 1885. In section eleven of the document it claimed that any criminals guilty of gross indecency would be sentenced to two years of hard labor. Gross indecency, in this case, included sexual activities between two people of the same gender. This act is what would get Oscar Wilde imprisoned in 1895. The man responsible for this addition is named Henry Du Pre Labouchere. He was an opponent of homosexuality and pushed for a seven year sentence for every man charged with gross indecency.