“Real change always comes from the bottom up. Change has never come from the top down, it comes from ordinary people, not so-called politicians or leaders.”
Mike Jackson, co-founder of Lesbians And Gays Support The Miners.
From a piece in The Guardian by Owen Jones on the film, Pride.
Fagburn gets the feeling every critic will gush about this 'feelgood movie' about industrial strife and homophobia, even in papers that in 1984 hated queers as much as they hated striking miners.
Might have been interesting to hear more from Mike about LGSM than the two lines above, but there you go...
• Celebrating Community Spirit During The 1984-85 Miners' Strike: Q&A with members of LGSM and the cast of Pride. People's History Museum, Manchester. Saturday 23rd August.
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| The Rev Richard Coles and comrades supporting the miners in 1984. |
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