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Contents:
- WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
- LGBT HISTORY MONTH: LBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MERS
- GAY'S THE WORD
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
A special anniversary was held for the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers’ group and the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley Mers Support Group who hadn’t seen each other sce the 1984 mers’ strike that brought them together.
LGBT HISTORY MONTH: LBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MERS
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"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.
GAY'S THE WORD
She explas how the gay muny ted the mg muny: "Their stggle is siar to our own.
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.