‘Pride’ looks at gay rights, workers’ woes
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The Tampa Tribune
‘Pride’ looks at gay rights, workers’ woes
By Roger Moore
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
October 9, 2014
“Pride,” the feel-good movie of the fall, is an utterly charming British reminder that there’s nothing scarier to politicians than when seemingly incompatible electorates discover their common interests. Those who want us divided don’t want us to remember that “united we stand.”
In Thatcher’s Britain, the war of organized labor came to a head with the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The Conservative government sought to try to lift the country out of its economic funk by closing down factories and coal mines all over the country. And if a byproduct of that was to break unions and throw hundreds of thousands of Labor voters out of work, so much the better.
Miners went on strike; riots ensued.
In London, Mark (Ben Schnetzer) is a young, headstrong gay activist who realizes the cops are too busy busting miners’ heads to hassle him and his friends. He impulsively decides to show solidarity with the miners at London’s 1984 Gay Pride parade....
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