When mers and gay activists uned: the real story of the film Pri | Pri | The Guardian

Contents:

• REMEMBERG MARK ASHTON: A PROUD ADVOTE OF SOCIALISM AND GAY RIGHTS
• ON THIS GAY DAY: ACTIVIST MARK ASHTON DIED 1987
• THE REAL-LIFE TRIUMPHS OF THE GAY MUNIST BEHD H MOVIE PRI
• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

REMEMBERG MARK ASHTON: A PROUD ADVOTE OF SOCIALISM AND GAY RIGHTS

A plaque memoratg the life of Mark Ashton - the young gay activist whose passnate work rallyg support for the Welsh mers the 1980s was memorialised the film Pri - has been placed was the secretary of the Young Communist League, and found Lbians and Gays Support the Mers (LGSM) 1984. He passed away only three years later of AIDS-related plitns at the age of would get together for meetgs at the Gay's the Word bookshop London, where Ashton would rally muny support for the mg muni South Wal who were alg wh p closur, and were nsequently livg wh the members of LGSM, Ashton rried out bucket llectns London's gay and lbian bars and clubs.

ON THIS GAY DAY: ACTIVIST MARK ASHTON DIED 1987

They end up raisg around £20, 000 for Welsh mg plaque memorialisg Ashton was placed at the Gay's the Word bookshop, Marchmont Street Bloomsbury, unveilg of the plaque took place on May 19th, which would have been Ashton's 57th of LGSM, Mike Jackson, told the that the loss of Mark was still wily felt:"To this day, Mark’s loss remas eply felt by so many fay members and iends.

“And why should gay people like me support the mers?

THE REAL-LIFE TRIUMPHS OF THE GAY MUNIST BEHD H MOVIE PRI

“Bee mers dig for al, which produc power, which allows gay people like to dance to Bananarama till 3 o’clock the morng.

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

This was an LGBT forward film where straight people were terviewed on their view of homosexualy. LGSM (Lbians and Gays Support the Mers).