The attention to historical detail in terms of characters, design and tone is superb, even if the new film does occasionally resort to mocking the lesbian separatists. A short documentary film made in February 1985, called All Out! Dancing in Dulais, reveals that Pride has really done its research. Miner Dai Donovan (Paddy Considine) turns up in London to meet Mark and his comrades, and LGSM’s fundraising and solidarity movement is on its way. This was indeed one of the first lodges to accept LGSM support, along with Neath and Swansea Valleys. “Humberside? Is that a place?” Most of the miners hang up on them when they call, until eventually they get hold of the Dulais Valley Lodge in south Wales. But a small LGSM group is formed, and resolves to raise money for a mining community. Mark doesn’t get a lot of support immediately: a gay man from Durham responds angrily that the miners used to beat him up back home.
