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It is one of only four voluntary organisations to appear in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2012 as one of the top 100 gay-friendly employers. In 2010/11, Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales helped people with around 28,500 discrimination enquiries – this represented a 25 per cent increase since 2007/08.Ĭitizens Advice is committed to equality and diversity, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) communities. “People can also learn how they can take better control of their finances, deal with difficult relationship issues such as escaping abusive relationships, and how they can get along better with anti-social neighbours, as well as finding out about volunteering opportunities at the CAB."
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We’ll be providing information on a wide range of issues including how to tackle unfair treatment, discrimination or hate incidents. We hope to talk to lots of people at the 2012 Pride events about how Citizens Advice Bureaux can help them learn about their rights, and how to exercise them. Gillian Guy, Chief Executive at Citizens Advice says: People in England and Wales have more legal rights to equality than many in other countries, but we still see evidence of hate crime and discrimination against LGBT people in the UK.Ĭitizens Advice has produced a Top Tips leaflet on how to tackle discrimination of every kind, and will be on hand to talk to people at the following Pride events this year: As Mike Jackson put it in an article about the film: "The one thing the ruling class don't want is solidarity they don't want us to join the dots up.As Pride London hosts World Pride 2012 with the theme of ‘Global equality for LGBT people’, Citizens Advice volunteers will be sharing advice at a number of events around the country on how to handle issues that still affect many in the LGBT community in this country. Although GLSM was eventually shunned by the official strike committee and the miners lost the strike and almost all of Britain's pits have subsequently closed, the concluding scenes of the film and the final bits of informative text turn this historic interaction into a success that should inspire the present day gay community and labour movement alike. And there is remarkable attention to period detail (we had the same design of coffee cup as in an early scene), enhanced by music from the time.
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The cast is magical: a combination of distinguished character actors like Imelda Staunton, Dominic West and Bill Nighy (although his South Wales accent is wobbly) and young newcomers like Ben Schnetzer, Joseph Gilgun and George MacKay. A disco dancing scene and a solo-to-group singing session are destined to become favourite recollections of a memorable movie. The script is a triumph with every line making an impact and telling us something and there are some wonderful jokes.
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Although the movie wears its political heart on its sleeve, it avoids an over-simplistic portrayal of the gay cause by showing entrenched opposition to their involvement in the miners dispute from sections of the Welsh community and challenge from gays themselves as to why they should be involved in a workers' strike, although the controversy of the lack of a ballot authorising the strike itself is avoided.
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The film is unashamedly political, both in its representation of the prejudice against homosexuals at a time was AIDS was devastating the gay community and the hostility of ministers, media and police to the miners' fight to keep pits open, but the treatment ensures that this is an immensely entertaining and often very funny work. So, the first weekend that the movie was on show, four of us from that dinner party were in the cinema to view it and we were all thrilled with how brilliantly this story has been told.
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He told us how he had been acting as a principal adviser to writer Stephen Beresford and director Matthew Warchus who had crafted the forthcoming film "Pride" which explored this unlikely pairing of groups fighting the iniquities of Thatcher's Britain and he made clear his delight at how the subject had been treated for the big screen. In the summer of 2014, my wife and I went to a north London dinner party where one of the other guests was Mike Jackson, a leading member of Lesbians and Guys Support the Miners ((LGSM), a support group during the bitter industrial dispute of 1984-85 which provided money and assistance to a mining community in South Wales.