Dai Donovan, then a striking South Wales miner, addressing the Pits & Perverts benefit concert organised by Lesbians And Gays Support The Miners in 1985.
He is featured in an Observer article inspired by the film Pride, that also has interviews with Jonathan Blake and Mike Jackson from LGSM, and Siân James from the Miners' Wives' Support Group (she's now a Labour MP).
Strange how some other media think that what people who acted in the film think about LGSM and the miners' strike is more important, insightful and interesting.
The four people above all think the film Pride has - hey! - done everyone who was involved proud.
Fagburn still thinks it's notable how the movie is getting raved about in the usually union-bashing and gaybashing right-wing press - the biggest quote on the poster is the Daily Mail calling it 'Indescribably wonderful!' - and by gay journalists with the politics of a wobbly pink blancmange.
The Sunday Times has a feature, Stephen Beresford: How I turned the miners' strike into a gay comedy.
That title alone surely speaks volumes - maybe the appeal of Pride (the movie) is that it's coal dust and dirt, blood, sweat and tears, dipped in some fabulous gay glitter?
PS And here's a video made by LGSM in 1985, Dancing In Dulais.
He is featured in an Observer article inspired by the film Pride, that also has interviews with Jonathan Blake and Mike Jackson from LGSM, and Siân James from the Miners' Wives' Support Group (she's now a Labour MP).
Strange how some other media think that what people who acted in the film think about LGSM and the miners' strike is more important, insightful and interesting.
The four people above all think the film Pride has - hey! - done everyone who was involved proud.
Fagburn still thinks it's notable how the movie is getting raved about in the usually union-bashing and gaybashing right-wing press - the biggest quote on the poster is the Daily Mail calling it 'Indescribably wonderful!' - and by gay journalists with the politics of a wobbly pink blancmange.
The Sunday Times has a feature, Stephen Beresford: How I turned the miners' strike into a gay comedy.
That title alone surely speaks volumes - maybe the appeal of Pride (the movie) is that it's coal dust and dirt, blood, sweat and tears, dipped in some fabulous gay glitter?
PS And here's a video made by LGSM in 1985, Dancing In Dulais.
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