If you missed Monday’s flag ceremony, there’s still the Connecticut LGBTQ film festival through June 8th and a film viewing at the Carriage House Theater on June 23rd. Also: District Night and poetry and Queer Con. Leave a comment to let us know what other Pride Month events are happening in Hartford.
Just remember, Pride did not stem from the push for marriage equality. If you don’t know, go read up on Stonewall.
Richard Nelson
One very important event that moves beyond the self-centered of the mainstream L and G movement is:
Pride
A film-viewing and video-conference discussion with Mike Jackson, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
Sunday, June 23
1:30pm
Carriage House Theater
360 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
$10 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds
In 1984 the Thatcher government sought to close coal pits as part of an offensive on trade-unions in the UK. Mine-workers responded with what turned out to be one of the largest and most intense strikes in British history. After a spontaneous fundraising effort for miners at the London Gay Pride Parade, two gay activists (Mark Ashton and Mike Jackson) formed Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. The group grew to 11 chapters and raised over 20,000 pounds for the families of strikers (about 80,000 American dollars in 2018).