"The common experience of being gay is deeply individual. You discover your sexual identity yourself, your closet is y…"

"Funny how unimportant being gay became once I told somebody. All I had to do was open up to my best friend, and when …"

"I came out as gay to Scarlett first moment alone when she was recovering at the hospital. "I love you, Val" was all S…"

"She said she’d learned a lot from contact with lesbians and gays, that we can’t do without the miners any more than t…"

"They started wearing gay badges on their lapels. They wanted money because they were on strike; we wanted recognition…"

"You have worn our badge ‘Coal Not Dole’ and you know what harassment means, as we do. Now we will pin your badge on u…"

"I’ve mentioned Lesbians and Gays in every meeting for the last six months. That the support the Gays and Lesbians hav…"

"The Women’s Support Groups of South Wales have not forgotten the solidarity, and the moral and financial support that…"

"It would be dishonest to say there was no dissent. Years later, we found out there had been a meeting following my le…"

"The importance of LGSM is simply that we support the miners openly as lesbians and gay men."