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Witness History: Witness Archive 2015Author: BBC World Service
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Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised a benefit concert to support striking coal-miners. They sent the money they raised to a mining village in Wales. The miners' strike was the biggest industrial dispute in British history. Hear from Mike Jackson, one of the gay men inspired by the miners' struggle.
