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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners: Pride in a legacy
Rather than rotting away in an archive, the achievements of LGSM are still inspiring people today, writes LYNNE WALSH
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A STORY of life-changing activism, comradeship and defiance could have been lost forever, filed away in archives.
Instead, thanks to the award-winning film Pride, a book of the same name and the continued political commitment of its founders, the amazing tale of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) has reached millions across the world.
LGSM sprung into life in London in July 1984, four months into the year-long miners’ strike of 1984-85, as brainchild of Mark Ashton, a Young Communist League (YCL) member and later general secretary, who grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
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