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Pride

Anouk GIRON SALAHUBTerminale 5
  • British movie
  • 2014
  • historical comedy-drama
  • based on a true story
=> LGSM (lesbian and gay support the miners)help miners' familiesminers' strike (1984)
Pride's posters
  • mining community don't want to be assiocated to them
  • queer have been persecuted by minors
  • donations to a mining village, Wales
  • committee of the village (Dulais valley)
  • Dai
  • L, G
  • accepted
  • Mark Ashton, gay activist
  • police's attention on the miners
  • London gay pride => collects money with buckets
  • LGSM
=> Joe (20, closeted), Mike, Steff (lesbian), Gethin+Jonathan (Gay's the World : headquarter)
  • reversed roles
  • links together miners,,queer people -> oppresed stand up for their rights
  • not just intersest => friendship
  • cause takes off
  • others join LGSM -> leave aside their preconseptions
  • more money
  • LGSM have to be accepted by miners
  • unexpected alliance
  • even after the end of the strike
  • to thank =>speech at a gay bar
  • not welcom =>booed, made fun of him
  • eloquence
  • new experiences (going on strike, meeting queer people)
  • humor, comparison of a battle -> not dangerous, victim of Thatcher's policies
  • male homosexuality decriminalized
  • can't show them as gay people in public
  • over 21 (18 for heterosexuals)
  • wasn't accepted socially -> conservatives : sin, unnatural
  • both communities persecuted by Thatcher's policy.
  • miners will loose but will help queer people to have more rights
  • movie came out : same-sex marriage allowed (step forward)
  • historical, political events
  • Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK
  • ultraliberal, violent policy
  • supports project to close mines not productive enough
  • national union of miners protests -> long workers' strike, 80 000 miners
=>difficult for their families
  • police repression, limits social assistance to thes families
  • universal themes : solidarity, hope, fraternity, struggle to obtain rights
  • optimistic way -> comedy
  • based on a true story, true people