
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of
the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Based on
a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who
raised money to help families affected by the British Miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of
what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to
accept the group's support due to the union's public relations' worries about
being openly associated with a gay group, so the activists instead decided to
take their donations directly to Onllwyn, a small mining village in Wales, resulting in an
alliance between the two communities. The alliance was unlike any seen before
and was ultimately successful.
Ce film sera présenté dans le cadre du 13e Festival Polyglotte le samedi 5 mars à 20 h 30 au Cinéma le Gén'eric d'Héric.
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