PRIDE
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 @ 7PM
HUB 132 Flex Theatre
Matthew Warchus (2014, U.K., 119 min.)
Based on a true story, this comic drama follows British gay rights activists in 1984, who supported striking coal minters in solidarity with the National Union of Mineworkers. As a result, mineworkers began supporting gay rights. Building solidarity globally remains important today when, for example, in 28 U.S. states–including Pennsylvania–non-government employees still can legally be fired based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
(Screened as part of Penn State’s observations of Pride Month)
During the past thirty years, gays have fought their way toward greater equality, but the miners, who were defeated in the 1984-85 strike, have, like other union workers in England and the United States, continued to lose power. “Pride” ends on a note of triumph, but it leaves a long sigh of regret in its wake.