LGSM members on the ‘true manifestation of allyship’ between LGBTQ+ people and miners in Thatcher’s Britain (EXCLUSIVE)

Mike Jackson, Jonathan Blake and Gethin Roberts of LGSM (Image: Attitude/Markus Bidaux)

“We didn’t care what they thought of us — we just wanted to help.”

That’s how Mike Jackson, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), sums up the radical spirit behind one of the most powerful — and unlikely — alliances in British political history, which is this year being honoured as a winner at the PEUGEOT Attitude PRIDE Awards Europe, supported by British Airways.

LGSM was founded in London in July 1984 by Jackson and Mark Ashton, two activists who became inspired after attending a talk by a striking miner. As the Thatcher government escalated its assault on coal miners, and queer communities faced mounting discrimination, the pair grabbed collection buckets and headed to that

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