LGBTSceneReview_2024_T5_GIRONSALAHUB
GIRON SALAHUB
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Pride
Anouk GIRON SALAHUBTerminale 5
- British movie
- 2014
- historical comedy-drama
- based on a true story
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
- 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
- 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