1984. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Part One
Sadly, the strike ended without victory for the miners – I remember a particularly depressing LGSM meeting on the day the strike was called off. However, the links that were forged between the two communities were well established by that time. As South Wales miner David Donovan had said at the Pits and Perverts gig:
“You have worn our badge, “Coal not Dole”, and you know what harassment means, as we do.
Now we will pin your badge on us, we will support you. It won’t change overnight, but now 140,000 miners know that there are other causes and other problems. We know about blacks, and gays, and nuclear disarmament. And we will never be the same.”
I don’t think anyone realised just how strong and significant that support was to be. In my next post I will detail how it played out.
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I remember collecting outside Brixton tube station playing cat and mouse between the Met and transport police. Step inside when the met were coming then on to the street when transport police. Arrested for begging, their term for collecting for miners, never convicted all charges dropped. Will never forget the times and also that not all was lost even though it feels like it at times. We have same sex marriage supported by Thatcher’s party will always make me smile.
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