Imagine you live in a nice, but small house. Your community has existed for hundreds of years and it centers around just one main export: coal. Coal is king in your neck of the woods. But what happens when the government wants to take all of that away?
We're ending out Pride Month with a story that comes to us from the UK. Madi tells us all about the Miners' strike of 1984 and the group of queer people who came to save the day.
Pictures from today's episode can be found here obvi!
Sources:
"Our Story" by Mike Jackson - LGSM.org
"Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners" - Bishopsgate Institute
"How LGBTQ Groups Supported..." by Livia Gershon - JSTOR Daily
"How Thatcher broke the miners'..." by BP Perry - History.co.uk
"Meet the Real-Life Heroes..." by Jeff Nelson - People
"Miners' Strike" by Nicola Bryan - BBC