complete and utter bollocks

Pride 2014

Today, at FACTS, @scriblitula and I were Gethin and Jonathan from the movie Pride (2014)

Shame on you if you can't dance too!

“Mark [Ashton] made our banner and painted the words to Solidarity Forever on the reverse. Banner now in People’s History Museum, Manchester.” - LGSM

who up until this point we see as this charismatic leader, he knows how to rally his people, etc and then he just. totally blows the canteen speech. "one in five miners must be [gay] too, right?" like. Mark. Sweetie. you threw this poor man into a situation were he might come to bodily harm for NO REASON and then didn't? think? they have you? do that too? you didn't come up with anything ahead of time? you didn't think it was a possibility??? turns out Mark Ashton only knows how to talk to Gay People and People Who Like Him Specifically (bc his second speech in the canteen is much more well received). Mark "Can't Work A Tough Crowd" Ashton, folks

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) is a political activist group of gay women and men that formed in a spirt of solidarity with the striking miners in 1984. Mark Ashton, one of the founders, saw the struggle of the miners as the same faced by gay people fighting for their rights against a government that would not listen. The LGSM organised fundraising events like the one depicted in this poster, a concert featuring Bronski Beat at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. The LGSM supported the Neath Dulais and Swansea Valley Miners mining communities, and raised around £20,000 during the strike. The poster was designed by LGSM member Kevin Franklin. (source)

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watched on 01/08/2023