「Quotes」

「Sixteen for the breeders, 21 for the gays. You're still a minor.」


「Lesbians and gays support the miners.」


「What I'd really like to say to you tonight is thank you. If you're one of the people that's put money in these buckets, if you've supported LGSM, then thank you, because what you've given us is more than money. It's friendship. When you're in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, well, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, well, that's the best feeling in the world. So, thank you.」


「I know all about what happens when people don't talk to each other. That's why I've never understood what's point of supporting gay rights but nobody else's rights? You know? Or worker's rights but not women's rights. It's... I don't know, illogical.
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There's a lodge banner down in the welfare, over 100 years old. We bring it out for special occasions, you konw. I'll show it to you one day. It's a symbol, like this. Two hands. That's what the labor movement means. Should mean. You support me, I support you. Whoever you are, wherever you come from. Shoulder to shoulder, hand to hand.」


「So, you live together like, you know, husband and wife. But what I want to know is...
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I know what you're going to say.
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Which one does the housework?
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Oh, Ok. That's not what I thought you was going to say.」


「Desperate people, they'll believe anything.」


「♫Bread and Roses♫」


「Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
 
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
 
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
 
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!
                             —— Arthur Hugh Clough」


「There's nothing worse than a lost cause.」


「My mother. She could not accept me.
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Not then, perhaps.
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She's religious. She hasn't said one word to me in 16 years.
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And what about you? What words have you said to her?」


「When somebody calls you a name, you take it and you own it.」


「You think you've known someone your whole life. Turns out they're a complete stranger.」


「Have some pride. Because life is short, okay? It's short.」


「Where are my lesbians? Where are my lesbians?」


「Miners support lesbian & gay.」


「On June 29th, 1985, London's gay pride march was led by Welsh miners in a show of solidarity for LGSM's support during the strike.」


 「A year after the strike ended a motion was tabled at the labour party conference to enshrine gay and lesbian rights into the party's manifesto. Although the motion had been raised before, this time it was passed. This was due, in part, to a block vote of total approval from one key union... The national union of mineworkers.」