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Contents:
- WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
- COAL MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS PARTNER IN 'PRI'
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- UK: GAY MERS’ STRIKE FILM WS QUEER PALM AWARD AT CANN
- ‘PRI’S’ BILL NIGHY SE SIAR STGGL FOR GAYS, STRIKG MERS
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.
"The story had bee a legend the gay muny. 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. It is really illogil to say, 'I'm gay and I'm to fendg the gay muny but I don't re about anythg else…'.
"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.
COAL MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS PARTNER IN 'PRI'
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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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"Wh the South Wal mers at the 1985 Labour party nference, we put gay rights on the agenda. Tim were tougher for lbians and gay men then. We were well ed to homophobia.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
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"Mike marvels at how tim have changed for homosexuals the metropolan first world: "It is unbelievable, we have ma such progrs. Until I was 13, homosexualy was a crime – like makg beg black a crime.
UK: GAY MERS’ STRIKE FILM WS QUEER PALM AWARD AT CANN
A Brish film about gay activists supportg the mers' strike has been award the unofficial 'Queer Palm' award at Cann Film Ftival. * films gay miners *
Nowadays, is unol for straight men to be disparagg about gay men. 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?
He says: "Gog to a gay club London was fely somethg I'd never envisaged dog.
‘PRI’S’ BILL NIGHY SE SIAR STGGL FOR GAYS, STRIKG MERS
Bill Nighy, starrg 'Pri,' fds s look at a gay mer and his unn's plight to be a rehg look at a te story. * films gay miners *
We know about blacks and gays and nuclear disarmament and we will never be the same. 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".
We knew gay people existed – my dad worked wh a mer who was gay – but nobody openly talked about ; was nsired very personal.
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