Lbians and Gays Support the Mers (LGSM)

LBIANS & GAY MEN SUPPORT THE MERS
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
MERS' STRIKE: VALLEY MUNY AND GAY ACTIVISTS' ENDURG IENDSHIPS
A STORY OF SOLIDARY: MERS AND THE GAY COMMUNY
GAY AND LBIAN SUPPORT FOR THE BRISH MERS' STRIKE
LBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MERS
LBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MERS (LGSM)

LBIANS & GAY MEN SUPPORT THE MERS

* lesbians and gays support the miners *

It won’t change overnight, but now a hundred and forty thoand mers know … about blacks and gays and nuclear disarmament and we will never be the same.

The re-formed Lbians and Gay Men Support the Mers (LGSM) cid on 9 October 2015 that we would wd down as a current mpaigng force and foc on the task of keepg alive the legacy of our work 1984-85 and puttg together a digal historil archive of documents, photos, personal stori, vios, d rerdgs and all other wrten material nnected to the strike. " 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.

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.

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

This report is by Joseph Price, one of our first year unrgraduate stunts. 35 years ago, on the 29th June 1985, London’s gay pri para received some very unlikely supporters who saw their duty to show their support for a muny who had helped them survive durg tumultuo tim. The supporters were b loads… * lesbians and gays support the miners *

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.

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.

MERS' STRIKE: VALLEY MUNY AND GAY ACTIVISTS' ENDURG IENDSHIPS

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.

A STORY OF SOLIDARY: MERS AND THE GAY COMMUNY

But the nsens was: we have been monised by the prs, maybe we should meet the gay people bee they've also been monised.

GAY AND LBIAN SUPPORT FOR THE BRISH MERS' STRIKE

" It was not long before Welsh mers warmed to their e: "They started wearg gay badg on their lapels. "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?