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Our fab customer @dlusioned sporting the #pitsandperverts t-shirt!!! Available from sizes small to Xxlarge - on our website or in the shop. @Regrann from @dlusioned - Equality and solidarity go hand in hand. I won’t have been brave enough to wear this T in 1984, but I’m thankful to those that were. The ‘Pits and Perverts” concert was a benefit gig organised by the London Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners group. The concert itself was a huge financial success – raising £5650 (£20K in today’s money) for striking miners and their families in South Wales. In return the miners brought their trade union banners to the 1985 Pride march in London, but they also helped push through gay rights policies at the 1985 Labour Party Conference. 📷 @iamjamesbarley_photographs #pride #gaystheword #whatiwore #menstyle #mensfashion #londonblogger #blogger #bloggerstyle #londonblogger #bloggerstyle #beardmodel #homostash #menwithmustaches #mustache #gayhipster #bearweek365 #bearscubsandscruff #gaybear #gaylondon #gayblogger #londonblogger #londonbloggers #gayblogger #beardgang #beardstagram #beardnation #facialfuzz

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“LESBIANS and GAYS SUPPORT the MINERS present PITS AND PERVERTS – Featuring BRONSKI BEAT & GUESTS – AT THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM-CAMDEN . . . ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE SOUTH WALES MINING COMMUNITY,” Camden Town, London, United Kingdom, December 10, 1984. During the year-long U.K. miners’ strike of 1984-1985, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s administration sequestered the funds of the National Union of Mineworkers, making it pointless for supporters to donate to the national union. Instead, support groups were paired directly with mining communities on whose behalf the group raised funds and collected supplies. After years of social activism, including collecting donations for the miners at London Pride 1984, Mark Ashton helped found the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) support group, which ultimately was paired to support the Neath, Dulais, and Swansea Valleys Miners Support Groups. On December 10, 1984, thirty-two years ago today, LGSM held its most successful fundraising event: the Pits and Perverts benefit concert. While many claim the show’s title came directly from a headline in “The Sun” tabloid, it is more likely that it merely parodied tabloid representations of the queer community generally. Beyond the financial success of the show, which was due in large part to the presence of Bronski Beat, it also represented a turning point in the history of the queer movement in the United Kingdom. For the first time, voices from the powerful mining communities spoke in solidarity with LGBTs, as a spokesperson from the National Union of Mineworkers told the Pits and Perverts crowd: “You have worn our badge, ‘Coal not Dole,’ and you know what harassment means, as we do. Now we will pin your badge on us; we will support you. It won’t change overnight, but now 140,000 miners know that there are other causes and other problems…and we’ll never be the same.” In the following years, the miners’ union served as one of the most outspoken advocates for the U.K.’s LGBT community. The Pits and Perverts concert is one of the events represented in the 2014 film “Pride.” #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #PitsAndPerverts (at Brixton)

Pretty pleased with my #Pride #PitsAndPerverts poster plus #GaysTheWord postcard and bookmark display :D if only I had space to display my signed #PrideMovie poster but one day... One day... #PrideFilm #LGSM #BookShop #Books #IndependentBookStore #IndependentBookShop #Film #Movie #British #BritishFilm #BritishMovie #LGBT