When attempts by the activists to contact the strike organizers are rebuffed, they decide to bypass the union and go directly to the people. He assembles a small group to raise money, making a persuasive case that they share the common enemy of Thatcher’s conservative government and its policy of steamrolling the disenfranchised. The fight for LGBT rights would appear unrelated to the labor battles of the blue-collar wasteland, but Mark sees the virtue of solidarity among the marginalized and oppressed.
One of those roped in is Joe ( George Mackay), a nice suburban lad with one foot still in the closet. Watching TV news coverage of the National Union of Mineworkers strike over pit closures, and of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s unsympathetic response, impassioned young gay activist Mark ( Ben Schnetzer) rounds up buckets from his neighbors and convinces a few of his fellow marcher friends to collect cash to support the miners’ families. The story is bookended by the London Gay Pride marches of 1984 and ’85. NEWS STORY: Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic Successor Named Cannes: Sony Pictures Classics Takes Davy Chou's 'All the People I'll Never Be'
