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Contents:
- WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
- PRI REVIEW – WHEN GAY ACTIVISTS STCK A AL WH MERS
- MATTHEW WARCH: WHY I MA A ROM ABOUT GAY ACTIVISTS AND STRIKG MERS
- GAY MUNY'S BACKG FOR MERS' STRIKE MA TO FILM
- COAL MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS PARTNER IN 'PRI'
- BRISH COALMERS STRIKE WH A GAY COALN IN 'PRI,' A CROWD-PLEASER
- PRI: A HEARTBREAKG BRISH COMEDY ABOUT THE TIME GAYS AND MERS WORKED TOGETHER
- CANN 2014 REVIEW: PRI - BILLY ELLT NTUED WH ROG GAY RIGHTS ROMANCE SET DURG MERS' STRIKE
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
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" He acknowledg now that this is a le you n only e once a pch and explas that he went on to tell the story of mers the Dulais valley South Wal durg the 1984-5 strike – the longt Brish history – and a gay and lbian group om London that donated more money (£11, 000 by December 1984) to their e than any other fundraiser the UK, along wh a mib emblazoned wh the logo LGSM: Lbians and Gays Support the a when a gree of homophobia was the norm, LGSM drove a uple of mib om Hackney Communy Transport and a clapped-out VW mper van to a bleak mg town South Wal to prent their donatns, uncerta what sort of wele to expect.
PRI REVIEW – WHEN GAY ACTIVISTS STCK A AL WH MERS
<strong>Peter Bradshaw:</strong> This poignant acunt of an unlikely alliance between gay activists and strikg mers has strong ronanc today * gay film miners strike *
Three years later and the film, shot Banwen, Wal, and London, and directed by Tony-wng Matthew Warch (rponsible for Matilda the Mil, and soon to be artistic director of the Old Vic), is might assume a rom about strikg mers and 80s gays was unlikely to be big box-office, but the same was probably said of Billy Ellt.
"In the homema LGSM documentary, we also glimpse a tall, handsome fellow wearg groovy leather troers, shakg a donatns bucket outsi Gay's the Word bookshop London's Marchmont Street – this is Jonathan Blake. Cliff, an olr mer ( the film, a killgly funny and affectg Bill Nighy) appears the documentary sayg: "The lbians and gays have been super duper. One hope is that the film might revive polil tert bee the activism of the left has been siled, the tra unns are weak, gay rights issu aren't there.
MATTHEW WARCH: WHY I MA A ROM ABOUT GAY ACTIVISTS AND STRIKG MERS
<strong>Alex von Tunzelmann:</strong> Gay mpaigners jo 80s Bra’s strikg mers this well-rearched film that still skips around thorny issu of socialism and a n- wh the Sun * gay film miners strike *
"Mike marvels at how tim have changed for homosexuals the metropolan first world: "It is unbelievable, we have ma such progrs. And when he has to make a speech a gay bar wh a clientele whose look is more S&M than M&S, you fear for him – how is all gog to pan out? Twenty-seven gay people ( the film is a dozen) slept on his floor – the morng, his six-year-old dghter "uldn't put her foot down".
GAY MUNY'S BACKG FOR MERS' STRIKE MA TO FILM
<p>New film Pri follows a group of gay activists who set out to help strikg mers – only to fd their support isn't wele. Ahead of s premiere at Cann on Thursday, s director explas why the story felt so personal</p> * gay film miners strike *
We knew gay people existed – my dad worked wh a mer who was gay – but nobody openly talked about ; was nsired very personal.
Gay activists work to help mers durg their lengthy strike of the Natnal Unn of Meworkers the summer of productn, box office & pany Vios56More like thisReview There is nothg not wonrful about this you don't lgh, don't shed a tear, or don't want to get up and cheer at the end, then you weren't payg attentn durg this movie. There is a phoric fiance this impassned and lovable film, which premiered at Cann earlier this year, based on the te story of pneerg gay mpaigners London who supported the strikg mers 1984, and so dog had to overe tribal spicns among both London’s gay muny and the mers of south Wal. Warch’s film mak the se that the strike was not simply a Light-Briga charge to oblivn but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights, self-rpect and Schzer giv a gutsy performance as Mark Ashton, the mpaigner who cis to break out of what he se as the parochialism of gay polics and support the mers.
He fac spicn om those who see mers as a macho tribe who wouldn’t lift a fger to help gay rais some sh and fds a sympathetic Welsh mg lear to accept : a dignified and telligent performance om Paddy Conside as Dai.
COAL MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS PARTNER IN 'PRI'
In a largely unknown aspect of the 1984-5 Mers’ strike, gay activists om London gave much need help to an embattled South Wal muny. Their story is told Pri, a film released the UK… * gay film miners strike *
At London’s Gay Pri March on 30 June, leftie activist Mark Ashton (played by Ben Schzer) argu that lbian and gay people should support the mers – for both groups are opprsed by the ernment and the tabloid prs. ”ActivismMark don’t get a lot of support immediately: a gay man om Durham rponds angrily that the mers ed to beat him up back home. It do, however, make accurate nods to the historil ntext, quotg the notor words of Manchter chief nstable Jam Anrton scribg gay men “swirlg about a human csp of their own makg”, and showg the Department of Health’s Don’t Die of Ignorance mercial.
It tells the te story of a group of gays and lbians London who ci to raise money for strikg mers on the grounds that they have the same enemi: the Thatcher ernment, the police and the tabloids. They name themselv LGSM (Lbians and Gays Support the Mers) and, unable to get their early donatns accepted by the mers' unn, set off an old mib to a remote village Wal to hand over the money person. In a largely unknown aspect of the 1984-5 Mers’ strike, gay activists om London gave much need help to an embattled South Wal muny.
BRISH COALMERS STRIKE WH A GAY COALN IN 'PRI,' A CROWD-PLEASER
A new film lled Pri tells the story of how the gay muny backed strikg mers the 1980s. * gay film miners strike *
Arguably many such gay dramas have largely foced on the stggle of the dividual, isolatn om the labour movement, echog the great stris sexual equaly that have occurred sce the 70s (acpanied by a rise e equaly). Their support for the strike prompted the Natnal Unn of Mers to mpaign for the rights of gay people and mand that sexual equaly be clud the program of the Labour Party. The real protagonists were surprised by the film’s mercial succs: 30 years later, a tearjerker about the class stggle beme an ternatnal blockbter, while tellg the te story of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers.
PRI: A HEARTBREAKG BRISH COMEDY ABOUT THE TIME GAYS AND MERS WORKED TOGETHER
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“Milant”, the group to which I belonged at the time, nsired gay rights a bourgeois ncern and imaged that the workers would not be able to handle .
Ever sce then, I do not accept the ia that workers are particularly homophobic – even though sometim they say thgs more bluntly. We jt started llectg money om the pri march or gay pubs, and the most we were expectg was a thank you letter om the village we supported.
CANN 2014 REVIEW: PRI - BILLY ELLT NTUED WH ROG GAY RIGHTS ROMANCE SET DURG MERS' STRIKE
Actor Bill Nighy talks about the importance of his latt movie Pri, which picts the stggle of strikg mers 1984 and the huge support they garnered om the gay rights muny. * gay film miners strike *
We were still personal ntact wh the people Wal – but the memory of the 80s solidary movements, even left and gay circl, fad wh time. The funnit reactns me om the mastream gays: Bee the movie was so succsful, they had to pretend that they hadn’t spised all along.
Pri, the wonrful new movie about a group of London-based lbian and gay activists who raised money for Welsh mers durg a major 1984-85 strike,... * gay film miners strike *
Your story has also spired a new anizatn, Lbians and Gays Support the Migrants, which not only llects money for migrant projects but has also ma a name for self wh darg actns, cludg the blocka of an airplane on which refuge were beg ported. It still puzzl me that exploative pani n march pri paras and prent themselv as gay-iendly while treatg their workers, cludg their LGBT staff, atrocly.
On the eveng of March 28, 2017, 15 activists cludg Lbians and Gays Support the Migrants (LGSM) cut a hole the fence surroundg London’s Standsted Airport. A new film lled Pri tells the story of how the gay muny backed strikg mers the Stephen Berford and gay rights activist Mike Jackson told BBC Breakfast how the film me about.
To reunt the story of how gay activists joed forc wh Brish mers 1984-85, the creators of “Pri” tracked down participants and extracted their stori, warts and all. * gay film miners strike *
25, 2014The classic unn anthem “Solidary Forever, ” sung by Pete Seeger, troduc “Pri, ” a stirrg film about the uneasy aln of Brish meworkers and gay and lbian activists durg a labor strike the mid-1980s. “Pri, ” unlike “The Full Monty, ” isn’t a edy, but lghs are harvted om the llisn of macho workg-class mers South Wal and young Londoners, mostly male, who gather at a gay strike was well unrway when Mark Ashton (Ben Schzer, “The Book Thief”), a fervent poli, began recg iends at a gay pri march London to raise money to help the mers and their fai.
The ps were so foced on breakg the strike Wal, he poted out, that their harassment of gay people London had temporarily fledglg anizatn, Lbians and Gays Support the Mers, tri to get touch wh the unn and eventually reach a lol chapter a South Wal village. The first layer of ice is broken when Jonathan (an improbably st Domic Wt, of “The Wire”), an actor and gay party animal, improvis a wild “Saturday Night Fever”-style solo to Shirley & Company’s “Shame, Shame, Shame.
The gay supporters, bis Mark and Jonathan, clu Jonathan’s lover, Geth (Andrew Stt), who grew up Wal, fled to London and hasn’t been home sce, and Joe (Gee MacKay), a shy, semi-closeted llege unn si clus Hefa (Imelda Stnton), a gung-ho, unflappable anizer who enthiastilly wel the gay ntgent, and Cliff (Bill Nighy), the unn’s pole, haltgly shy secretary. Var gre of antigay sentiment are exprsed by the mers, yet the movie ref to monize anyone except Mreen (Lisa Paley), an tractably homophobic mer’s wife who leaks the news of the aln to a tabloid. An article sneergly headled “Ps and Perverts” ras ridicule on the alliance and embarrass the mers enough for them to disurage further gay support.