The film Pride tells the story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). It’s an extraordinary and inspiring achievement for a mainstream movie. For almost a year in 1984–85, over one hundred thousand miners were on strike. The strike was the major political issue of the day, and Thatcher’s final defeat of the miners was one of her greatest victories.

Yet while it ended in defeat, the strike included many extraordinary examples of solidarity, including that between LGSM, from London, and the community of Onllwyn in South Wales’ Dulais Valley. Colin Wilson — a member of  rs21, where this interview first appeared — recently spoke to Ray Goodspeed, one of the founders of LGSM.