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      ‘No politics … We’re a Mardi Gras now’: Telling the story of LGSM in 21 st-Century Britain

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          What does it mean that Pride was released in 2014, 30 years after the formation of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and the same year in which a Conservative government made same-sex marriage a legal reality in the UK? In this article, I explore the narrativising of LGSM’s story, in order to consider how nostalgia operates in the film. Chiefly, I consider the choices that the screenwriter, Stephen Beresford, made in reconstructing the story of LGSM, and examine what these choices reveal about the changes that have taken place in the political landscape of gay Britain over the last 30 years. Through an analysis of these choices, I argue that Pride offers contemporary audiences a story of radical LGBTQ activism that they can enjoy and celebrate, while side-stepping uncomfortable questions regarding identity politics, single issue politics and the demise of collectivist politics.

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                Journal
                2056-6700
                Open Library of Humanities
                Open Library of Humanities
                2056-6700
                23 September 2019
                2019
                : 5
                : 1
                : 63
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                [1 ]Fordham University, US
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4663-5821
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                10.16995/olh.323
                4bae0a16-07bc-4002-9511-2b540df97313
                Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Pride revisited: cinema, activism and re-activation

                Literary studies,Religious studies & Theology,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,History,Philosophy

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