My Uncle Christopher grew up with and was best friends with Mark Ashton, and it was honestly so amazing to see Pride. My uncle cried as he had been one of Mark's pall bearers, so to see a section of his life replayed, Chris was overcome with the bittersweet reminder of his childhood friend. He still talks about Mark occasionally
I cried when you spoke about the miners coming to support the lgbtq community at the pride march, what a beautiful moment in history 🥹Thank you Georgia for always bringing light to important stories 🤍 love from Glasgow x
with the strikes happening in the UK, I always come back to this story and the movie Pride to remind myself about the importance of solidarity and supporting causes that may not be directly related to me but need support to showcase strength in numbers. I may not be a teacher, or a nurse, or a RMT worker but showing up for these people and getting awareness to their cause, and the queer people within those circles as well, is very very important
I love your LGBTQ+ videos! It honestly didn’t surprise me when you came out on TH-cam, I think us queer people can feel each other’s vibes and even as a teenage queer girl I felt you were a safe person 🏳️🌈
As we go marching, marching In the beauty of the day A million darkened kitchens A thousand mill lofts gray Are touched with all the radiance That a sudden sun discloses For the people hear us singing Bread and roses, bread and roses As we go marching, marching We battle too for men For they are women's children And we mother them again Our lives shall not be sweetened From birth until life closes Hearts starve as well as bodies Give us bread, but give us roses As we go marching, marching Unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing Their ancient call for bread Small art and love and beauty Their drudging spirits knew Yes, it is bread we fight for But we fight for roses too As we go marching, marching We bring the greater days For the rising of the women Means the rising of the race No more the drudge and idler Tender toil where one reposes But the sharing of lives glories Bread and roses, bread and roses (Bread and roses, bread and roses) Our lives shall not be sweated From birth until life closes Hearts starve as well as bodies Bread and roses, bread and roses
Thank you for this video! My grandfather worked in the mines of south wales and these stories will always keep his spirit alive since he passed away. He told me so many stories while I was growing up and I’ve always been obsessed with this time in history. It will always make me feel closer to him, knowing the struggles he went through. My grandparents were at the london pride ‘85 and it melts my heart every time I hear it
I love this - I live in the North East of England and in a prominent pit village - it’s literally called Pittington! My family was full of miners in the past so this touches so close to home. What an amazing story of basic humanity. Thank you Georgia ❤
I had to pause this a few times to fight the tears and properly pay attention. It feels like such a positive in Queer History and it really shows that even people living such different lives can come together in peace and love to show support.
My husband sat down and watched it this after I tried to tell him the story and poorly explained everything (because no matter what we've been told we are still Queer even if we're in a hetronormal marriage) and when he got to the part of the the bus of miners arriving at pride he just roared with laughter. I asked him what was so funny about such support and he just said "I'm just imagining at least one or two of those miners were as bigoted as they come and spent the morning angrily dressing in their nice clothes and rushing their family's to catch the bus on time, not because they wanted to show their support but out of spite for the Tories." I had made the mistake of having a sip of tea that promptly came out of my nose.
Oh no, now he's talking about starting a "support of of spite" group 🤦♀️ it's currently a joke but we do have the sort of friends group who would make it happen for the laughs.
I got so excited when I saw you upload a video on this! Pride, in which the story is the basis of the movie is my favourite favourite movie ever!! keep cracking on with your amazing content Georgia, I look forward to your videos
I too, wondered about the “boys dancing with boys.” Girls have been dancing with girls since forever. I think Jane Austin talked about that in more than one of her books. (It’s been a long time since I’ve read her so I’m a little foggy on that) Lovely and amazing story about people who are different coming together to help each other and realizing in the end they aren’t so different. 💙💙💙
as a proud member of the young communist league, i’m so happy to see you cover this video. mark ashton was the ycl general secretary, we recently posted in memory of him on our socials as he died 11th February 1987.
The anniversary of Mark Ashton's untimely death was just a few days ago (February 11th) he was such a firebrand and passionate member to every cause he threw himself behind and he died at 26. When you see the legacy that this group has left, it makes you wonder what else could have been achieved if Mark and the thousands of wonderful, beautiful and talented people who were abandoned by the Tatcher government to died of AIDS could have done in this world had they lived.
Also.. IM SOOOO HAPPY FOR ANOTHER HISTORY VIDEO!!!!!! I love history so much when told by you! Especially since i agree that plagues, and disease videos are super interesting like you do. Lol
In case there are any other confused Americans... in the US February is Black History month, and October is LGBT History Month. In the UK, it's reversed.
The Pride movie is just my favourite flick.....I am so pro union and I love how we can bridge the divide through our collective and shared struggle. Unions have been behind and even pioneered in the civil rights arena across the board. I loved this episode Georgia and when they marched together, when the miners came to march in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community, I was just brought to tears, incredibly beautiful
Hi Georgia! I didn't know February is LGBT History Month - thank you for letting us know. The story you told is wonderful - very heartwarming. Have a great day!
I know absolutely nothing about queer history and I am so glad to learn about it from you. Thank you so much for sharing these stories so that people can hear about them!
Thanks for this terrific video, well done, I recall this well. At the time it was so easy to collect money for the striking miners, I’d just stand with a bucket in the street marked collecting for miners and people would just put money in, even city “yuppies” in suits would put in £20 notes. I do disagree therefore that the public turned against the strikers, it was easily the most popular strike I’ve ever known, partly this was because they were striking to save jobs at a time unemployment was rocketing, and not for higher pay, which is what most strikes were about.
thank you for another great history video. my daughter & i just walked to the site of an old coal mine local to us yesterday! Sutton Manor Colliery, where a 20 metre tall sculpture named Dream now stands. happy LGBT+ history month 🤗
Thank you for covering this. You always do great and I'm happy you cover every part of history. I know it would be easier to skip this. Thanks for not. )
Uggggh. What is wrong with people???? It doesnt matter who you love!! It doesnt make you a bad person! I hate how lgbtq have been treated in history.. even recent history!!! And also 33:56 i cried when you said the miners came to pride! So freaking awesome
I laughed at the comments about vegetarian lesbians because that's exactly what my mother is. In addition, vegetarianism is definitely where we disagree. I like my new stepmom, but I don't know what to make when we have them over for dinner, we are very much a pro-meat household!
very interesting, thanks for sharing! could you do a video on margaret thatcher? :) and/or about NI/Ireland/IRA? also, you are serving LOOKS in this video haha
So many shocking IRA bomb attacks. They were hell bent on ethnically cleansing Protestant people. So many IRA atrocioities, it was all one way traffic. And then Tony Blair ran up the white flag of surrender.
Point of history. In 1983/ 4 we were NOT the queer community - "queer" was a derogatrority term. We started to reclaim it in the early 1990's. I helped get the miner's wives onto the stage at Pride 1985 and also helped produce the "Queer as Fuck" tee-shirts for Outrage in 1993 so please respect out history.
I wonder whether women should stand with their backs against the walls, or their front to avoid all the unwanted perverted straight men advances. I'm wondering for a friend, her name is Everywoman Everywhere.
Speak to me Georgia, my teenage years were the 1970's...and this country was in dire economic straits. Not just coal but all nationalised concerns were rust bucket state industries. Dying on their feet, loss making, propped up by taxpayer's cash, terrible overmanning. The car industries were a shambles, junk products...forever on strike. Old industry - doomed.
I'm Argentine. One of my friends is Scottish. Our friendship started when we bonded over our shared hatred for Thatcher, milk snatcher. Now we send each other dnd memes and I'm taking some soup for him today since he's got the flu.
remember this strike at 17, hard to believe that gay people helped as at that time if you came out as gay male the miners would have probably beaten you up, speaking as a non gay man that lived in a mining community back then. I think the gay community should have not helped out, as it would have gone into the local pub not towards food. seriously remember being harassed on the street for money by groups of striking miners very intimidating. Can say not one miner would have come to the aid of a gay person being attacked at that time. Georgia great story by yourself as ever just some real background from personal experience. As a side note went to college later met a gay man our first open conversation was of him telling me his mum cought him in bed, i thought it was a girl he said no his boyfriend, amazing as we sat by each other every day. Even after could not make that one up.Fond memory of him still, ps all the girls used to hang with him at lunch time too.
The miners ( legal/illegal) strikes and flying pickets were a necessary thing to turn the British public against the miners. The government considered the trade unions as way too strong and were determined not to let the trade unions overule the will of the government as they had in the seventies which had been a pretty awful time for me and many kids when growing up. Margaret Thatcher defeated the miners and brought in a period of relative prosperity for Britain, the eighties was a pretty good time for young people In my ( working class) sphere of 20 somethings everyone had a job and had a bit of cash to spend. As a pure spectator at that time in Manchester, the gay scene seemed to be pretty open and accepted, even with the spectre of HIV hovering over it. Apart from using public toilets for other purposes, I only ever saw or heard the gay community being hassled by the pigs for the same reasons as everyone else, disorderly, intoxicated, smoking joints, assault etc.
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My Uncle Christopher grew up with and was best friends with Mark Ashton, and it was honestly so amazing to see Pride. My uncle cried as he had been one of Mark's pall bearers, so to see a section of his life replayed, Chris was overcome with the bittersweet reminder of his childhood friend. He still talks about Mark occasionally
“What the heck do I do with a vegetarian” 😂😂
I cried when you spoke about the miners coming to support the lgbtq community at the pride march, what a beautiful moment in history 🥹Thank you Georgia for always bringing light to important stories 🤍 love from Glasgow x
with the strikes happening in the UK, I always come back to this story and the movie Pride to remind myself about the importance of solidarity and supporting causes that may not be directly related to me but need support to showcase strength in numbers. I may not be a teacher, or a nurse, or a RMT worker but showing up for these people and getting awareness to their cause, and the queer people within those circles as well, is very very important
I love your LGBTQ+ videos! It honestly didn’t surprise me when you came out on TH-cam, I think us queer people can feel each other’s vibes and even as a teenage queer girl I felt you were a safe person 🏳️🌈
I never was any good at hiding my sexuality 🤣
As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
Bread and roses, bread and roses
As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are women's children
And we mother them again
Our lives shall not be sweetened
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses
As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient call for bread
Small art and love and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses too
As we go marching, marching
We bring the greater days
For the rising of the women
Means the rising of the race
No more the drudge and idler
Tender toil where one reposes
But the sharing of lives glories
Bread and roses, bread and roses
(Bread and roses, bread and roses)
Our lives shall not be sweated
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Bread and roses, bread and roses
I love this whole story but “Pits and Perverts” might be my favorite part. 👏 😂
incredible isn't it
Thank you for this video! My grandfather worked in the mines of south wales and these stories will always keep his spirit alive since he passed away. He told me so many stories while I was growing up and I’ve always been obsessed with this time in history. It will always make me feel closer to him, knowing the struggles he went through. My grandparents were at the london pride ‘85 and it melts my heart every time I hear it
I love this - I live in the North East of England and in a prominent pit village - it’s literally called Pittington! My family was full of miners in the past so this touches so close to home. What an amazing story of basic humanity. Thank you Georgia ❤
Pittington, fantastic name
I learn more from your videos than I ever learned in school. Please never stop making your history videos!
That's the plan!
I absolutely adore your lgbt videos, please keep making them!💜
I will I will!
I had to pause this a few times to fight the tears and properly pay attention. It feels like such a positive in Queer History and it really shows that even people living such different lives can come together in peace and love to show support.
honestly I sobbed the entire time I was researching this!
My husband sat down and watched it this after I tried to tell him the story and poorly explained everything (because no matter what we've been told we are still Queer even if we're in a hetronormal marriage) and when he got to the part of the the bus of miners arriving at pride he just roared with laughter. I asked him what was so funny about such support and he just said "I'm just imagining at least one or two of those miners were as bigoted as they come and spent the morning angrily dressing in their nice clothes and rushing their family's to catch the bus on time, not because they wanted to show their support but out of spite for the Tories." I had made the mistake of having a sip of tea that promptly came out of my nose.
Oh no, now he's talking about starting a "support of of spite" group 🤦♀️ it's currently a joke but we do have the sort of friends group who would make it happen for the laughs.
If you haven't watched the film Pride, I urge you to, it's do heartwarming 😊❤️
I adore that film , it's amazing 😍
I literally sobbed my way through it, recommend to everyone!
I cried too 🥲🥲 x
This is one of my favourite videos of yours! such a wonderful and heartwarming story! And one that I hadn't heard, thanks for sharing it!
I got so excited when I saw you upload a video on this! Pride, in which the story is the basis of the movie is my favourite favourite movie ever!! keep cracking on with your amazing content Georgia, I look forward to your videos
Your queer history videos are some of my favourites. Keep up the great work!
thanks for watching!!
I too, wondered about the “boys dancing with boys.” Girls have been dancing with girls since forever. I think Jane Austin talked about that in more than one of her books. (It’s been a long time since I’ve read her so I’m a little foggy on that)
Lovely and amazing story about people who are different coming together to help each other and realizing in the end they aren’t so different. 💙💙💙
as a proud member of the young communist league, i’m so happy to see you cover this video. mark ashton was the ycl general secretary, we recently posted in memory of him on our socials as he died 11th February 1987.
The anniversary of Mark Ashton's untimely death was just a few days ago (February 11th) he was such a firebrand and passionate member to every cause he threw himself behind and he died at 26. When you see the legacy that this group has left, it makes you wonder what else could have been achieved if Mark and the thousands of wonderful, beautiful and talented people who were abandoned by the Tatcher government to died of AIDS could have done in this world had they lived.
Also.. IM SOOOO HAPPY FOR ANOTHER HISTORY VIDEO!!!!!! I love history so much when told by you! Especially since i agree that plagues, and disease videos are super interesting like you do. Lol
In case there are any other confused Americans... in the US February is Black History month, and October is LGBT History Month. In the UK, it's reversed.
This is such a good example of people putting aside their differences and uniting for the common good and we need to see more of it.
You’re awesome 💖 Thank you for covering this bit of history 🌈💞
The Pride movie is just my favourite flick.....I am so pro union and I love how we can bridge the divide through our collective and shared struggle. Unions have been behind and even pioneered in the civil rights arena across the board. I loved this episode Georgia and when they marched together, when the miners came to march in solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community, I was just brought to tears, incredibly beautiful
Thank you for sharing this story! I had never heard it before! ❤❤❤
Hi Georgia! I didn't know February is LGBT History Month - thank you for letting us know. The story you told is wonderful - very heartwarming. Have a great day!
My heart is breaking watching what's happening in Tennessee and the US as a whole right now. I live in Indiana and I really fear we aren't far behind
I know absolutely nothing about queer history and I am so glad to learn about it from you. Thank you so much for sharing these stories so that people can hear about them!
I cried multiple times during this video. Thanks for sharing positive LGBTQ+ stories, Georgia. History is wonderful.
You are so welcome!
When you started talking about this I started remembering this unfold on the television all those years ago. Amazing.
This is my favourite video so far. I've been a big fan, but today you made me tear up
I love the fact that Georgia does not use content warnings in the murder cases but does for Margaret Tacher 😂
Loving all the queer history videos lately ❤ this is the history we need to learn in our community.
Thanks for this terrific video, well done, I recall this well. At the time it was so easy to collect money for the striking miners, I’d just stand with a bucket in the street marked collecting for miners and people would just put money in, even city “yuppies” in suits would put in £20 notes. I do disagree therefore that the public turned against the strikers, it was easily the most popular strike I’ve ever known, partly this was because they were striking to save jobs at a time unemployment was rocketing, and not for higher pay, which is what most strikes were about.
I had never heard about this before, I was alive at the time but American and suffering under Reagan. Thanks for sharing!
I love your tortie so much.
she loves you!!
Tony Blair was caught ''cottaging'' in 1983 and ended up in court.
This fact has been removed from his wikipedia entry.
thank you for another great history video. my daughter & i just walked to the site of an old coal mine local to us yesterday! Sutton Manor Colliery, where a 20 metre tall sculpture named Dream now stands.
happy LGBT+ history month 🤗
Your best video yet! 👏🏼
Thank you for covering this. You always do great and I'm happy you cover every part of history.
I know it would be easier to skip this. Thanks for not. )
Wonderful video. I've seen Pride but after this, I might need to give it a rewatch.
Finally a story of queer history that doesnt end w/ me angry-sobbing! ❤
Uggggh. What is wrong with people???? It doesnt matter who you love!! It doesnt make you a bad person! I hate how lgbtq have been treated in history.. even recent history!!! And also 33:56 i cried when you said the miners came to pride! So freaking awesome
Thank you so very much for your content. Such wonderful educational information.
I laughed at the comments about vegetarian lesbians because that's exactly what my mother is. In addition, vegetarianism is definitely where we disagree. I like my new stepmom, but I don't know what to make when we have them over for dinner, we are very much a pro-meat household!
I love this story! So inspiring!
Such a lovely story! ❤
very interesting, thanks for sharing! could you do a video on margaret thatcher? :) and/or about NI/Ireland/IRA? also, you are serving LOOKS in this video haha
Great suggestion!
So many shocking IRA bomb attacks.
They were hell bent on ethnically cleansing Protestant people.
So many IRA atrocioities, it was all one way traffic.
And then Tony Blair ran up the white flag of surrender.
They touch on this at the end of Velvet Goldmine (although, clunky as the script is, it's not really explained. You have to just know.)
What a heartwarming story. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ahhh, SO excited for more LGTBQ+ history from you! ✨
much more to come!
None of us are free until all of us are free, solidarity is how our community has survived and its how we can achieve equality for all 🏳️🌈
The miners turning up to pride... now why am I crying
Point of history. In 1983/ 4 we were NOT the queer community - "queer" was a derogatrority term. We started to reclaim it in the early 1990's. I helped get the miner's wives onto the stage at Pride 1985 and also helped produce the "Queer as Fuck" tee-shirts for Outrage in 1993 so please respect out history.
This one got me so emotional. I love the queer history videos ❤️
Tearing up, great part of history ❤
Pride is one of my favourite movies! A must watch :)
Love 😘 your history videos and 4 always being your true self what a breath of fresh air x
Thank you so much!
I watched the pride film (2014) a week ago which is about this story. loved it! ❤
such a wonderful film!
I live near Orgreave (2 minute drive) and was never taught this x
Dear Georgia, I just love for what you do let me how can i help these people?
I wonder whether women should stand with their backs against the walls, or their front to avoid all the unwanted perverted straight men advances. I'm wondering for a friend, her name is Everywoman Everywhere.
Goosebumps!
this links to my a level history course so i get to watch something i enjoy whilst helping my grades😈😋
OMG, i just found you a couple days ago, im so early now!
thanks for watching!!
@@georgiamarie_ OMG!!!! Thanks for replying 😌 made my week
Coal miners British queers
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Getting effed by the Thatcher
😚✌🏻
Just commenting for the algorithm 🤎💜
*happy tears*
love it
❤️
South Wales REPRESENT haha!
🌈
Speak to me Georgia, my teenage years were the 1970's...and this country was in dire
economic straits. Not just coal but all nationalised concerns were rust bucket state industries.
Dying on their feet, loss making, propped up by taxpayer's cash, terrible overmanning.
The car industries were a shambles, junk products...forever on strike. Old industry - doomed.
I'm Argentine. One of my friends is Scottish. Our friendship started when we bonded over our shared hatred for Thatcher, milk snatcher. Now we send each other dnd memes and I'm taking some soup for him today since he's got the flu.
remember this strike at 17, hard to believe that gay people helped as at that time if you came out as gay male the miners would have probably beaten you up, speaking as a non gay man that lived in a mining community back then. I think the gay community should have not helped out, as it would have gone into the local pub not towards food. seriously remember being harassed on the street for money by groups of striking miners very intimidating. Can say not one miner would have come to the aid of a gay person being attacked at that time.
Georgia great story by yourself as ever just some real background from personal experience. As a side note went to college later met a gay man our first open conversation was of him telling me his mum cought him in bed, i thought it was a girl he said no his boyfriend, amazing as we sat by each other every day. Even after could not make that one up.Fond memory of him still, ps all the girls used to hang with him at lunch time too.
The miners ( legal/illegal) strikes and flying pickets were a necessary thing to turn the British public against the miners. The government considered the trade unions as way too strong and were determined not to let the trade unions overule the will of the government as they had in the seventies which had been a pretty awful time for me and many kids when growing up. Margaret Thatcher defeated the miners and brought in a period of relative prosperity for Britain, the eighties was a pretty good time for young people In my ( working class) sphere of 20 somethings everyone had a job and had a bit of cash to spend. As a pure spectator at that time in Manchester, the gay scene seemed to be pretty open and accepted, even with the spectre of HIV hovering over it. Apart from using public toilets for other purposes, I only ever saw or heard the gay community being hassled by the pigs for the same reasons as everyone else, disorderly, intoxicated, smoking joints, assault etc.
Well they both like going in dark holes 🤣