Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In today's (COVID-delayed) pride special, we're talking about the 1980s UK activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, and their work with the Neath, Delais and Swansea Valley miners support groups in South Wales. Join us to hear the true story of the events of the movie Pride (2014), featuring our hatred of Thatcher, a 27-person (and 2-dog) queer sleepover, and an inspiring story of solidarity. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. If you'd like to support a queer-owned business, check out Proud Geek, an online specialist retailer of LGBT+ entertainment and media, offering a wide range of titles from the past 25 years.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer is Back to Podcast, bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.8	and throughout time. I'm Irene. I'm Jason. I'm Alice. Today we'll be talking about the British
0:09.1	activist group Lesbians and gays support the minors and the historical events that the 2014
0:13.7	movie Pride is based on. Before I start, I'd like to acknowledge the warundry,
0:26.3	Woi-Wong people of the Koolen Nation as the traditional owners of the land
0:29.9	on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and present.
0:34.1	We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:39.2	We had a request from one of our listeners, Max, who asked us to shout out his local queer
0:43.7	bookshop.
0:44.6	So before we start, this is just a shout out to Proud Geek, an online LGBT Plus bookshop based
0:50.3	in the UK, shipping to the UK, Europe and, excitingly for us, Australia, whose website
0:55.6	allows you to filter by media, queer representation and genre, and who deliver all their
1:00.1	orders in secure, discrete packaging to make sure those not out at home are safe.
1:04.6	Oh, that's so nice of them.
1:05.9	You can find out more on their About Us page on their website, which we will link in the
1:09.6	episode description.
1:10.8	We have a couple of content warnings for this episode. It does include descriptions of period
1:16.3	typical homophobia, discussion of HIV and AIDS, and a little swearing in quotes.
1:22.1	Just a little. Just a little. There are like a couple of quotes. It also contains mentions
1:26.2	of sexual content.
1:32.0	And Maggie Thatcher. Oh yeah, and Margaret Thatcher is here. I hate her. If you want to turn it off right now, I will understand. We were originally intending for this episode to come out during
1:39.6	Pride Month. That's definitely what I insinuated was going to happen in the Patreon newsletter that I put out.
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