When: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PMWhere: BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne Building, Mile End
Speaker: Jade Evans
Free screening of seminal queer protest film Pride (2014) London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales.
About the film
In 1984, with Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in power, a group of lesbian and gay activists, led by Mark Ashton, find unlikely allies in a collective of Welsh miners taking industrial action following pit closures.
With both groups equally despised by Thatcher, Ashton proposes a show of solidarity between them, but tabloid smears and a frosty reception from the miners' families threaten to derail his plans.
This screening