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Wholesome dad supporting his son at gay pride festival
![Birthday, Community, and Lesbians: maireddog:
Mark Ashton died on this day, the 11th of February, in 1987.
Mark
was born on the 19th of May, 1960 in Oldham, but grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1978, where he worked in
a bar in Kingβs Cross, in drag as a barmaid with a blonde beehive.
In
the 1980s, he volunteered for London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard,
campaigned for CND and joined the Communist Party, becoming the first gay secretary of the Young Communist League. Though Mark transformed the Partyβs approach to LGBT rights, he and Mike Jackson, who heβd met through Switchboard, wanted to be active as openly gay people. They formed
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) when they collected donations for miners on strike at 1984 Gay Pride.
In the evening of 1984 Pride, a miner spoke at a rally, and they were struck by the similarities between the two struggle, of LGBT rights and the Minersβ Strike. Having collected about Β£150, they advertised a meeting in Capital Gay. 11 people turned up and from the meeting they made a leaflet to launch LGSM - the leaflet was accepted except with an amendment to βone in ten miners is gay.β
As LGSM, they supported the miners as lesbian and gay people. At the second meeting, they decided to focus on one community, of the Dulais Valley, as one of the members, Hugh Williams, was from there. They then met David (Dai) Donovan, who also had thought through the similarities of their struggles and how LGSM could help. A month later, 27 lesbians and gay men, arrived at Onllwyn village in Dulais Valley.
Other than some hostility (and confusion towards vegetarianism), they experienced warmth, friendship and solidarity. LGSM raised Β£20,000 for families of miners on strike, and based on The Sun writing thatΒ βa group of pervertsβ were βsupporting the pits,β they organised the Pits and Perverts concert in December, 1984, headlined by Bronski Beat. The miners marched with LGSM at Gay Pride in 1985.
Mark was admitted to hospital on 30th January, 1987, and died 12 days later from pneumonia, aged 26. At his memorial, there were banners from the Communist Party, Anti-Apartheid, anti-nuclear, Caribbean and community groups, as well as from LGSM. The Mark Ashton Trust was created to support individuals
diagnosed with Aids; Mark is also remembered on the UK Aids Memorial
Quilt and by Terrence Higgins Trust, with the Mark Ashton Red Ribbon
Fund and a plaque at their London headquarters. In 2017, on what would have been his 57th birthday, he was honoured with a blue
plaque above Gayβs The Word bookshop.
[Images: 1. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1981. 2. Mark Ashton at Gay
Pride
1985, wearing a LGSM t-shirt and holding a pink βCommunist Partyβ banner
with the words βpinko commie queers.β 3. Blue plaque reading: βLesbians
and Gays Support the Miners. Mark Ashton 1960-1987. Political and
Community Activist. LGSM met at Gayβs the Word bookship on this site
1984/5.β]](https://pics.me.me/thumb_maireddog-mark-ashton-died-on-this-day-the-11th-of-42056555.png)
![Cute, Football, and Queen: shakescene
my mom, turning up "we will rock you" football
babey!
me, internally: straight people think they
understand queen which is cute
shakescene
[Verse 2]
Buddy, you're a young man, hard man
Shouting in the street, gonna take on the
world someday
You got blood on your face, you big
disgrace
Waving your banner all over the place
it's gay pride darling
queen](https://pics.me.me/thumb_shakescene-my-mom-turning-up-we-will-rock-you-football-42012015.png)
caucasianscriptures: The most dangerous game
![God, Marriage, and News: Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 29 Jun 2015
Marriage" girldefined.com/keeping-marria
KEEPING
MARRIAGE
STRAIGHT
WH)
THE BIBLE
NEVER
RECOGNIZES
"GAY
MARRIAGE
2
READ POT
GIRLDEFINED.COM/BLOG
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 20 Jun 2014
Please don't get sucked into the gay pride agenda. Don't base your beliefs on
your emotions. God's word must be... fb.me/31ZBmV6KS
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 27 Jun 2015
TIMELY READJ Responding to the Homosexual Movement
So here we are, up to our necks in the homosexual agenda... . b.me/7hTQArATk
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Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 26 Jun 2014
Sad day. @BananaRepublic supports and encourages the homosexual agenda
with #PrideMonth on.fb.me/TCa9DR
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Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 21 Jun 2014
Disturbing fairy tale book hits public libraries promoting homosexual marriage.
bit.ly/UWnAjo
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 18 Jun 2014
How does someone prove they are "gay"? Find the answer on the blog today
bit.ly/1plofs6
CA
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 18 Jun 2014
New Post) The
fb.me/6kXwRqltP
Gay Pride Movement and Their Sneaky Agen...
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 20 Jun 2014
New Post Responding to the Homosexual Movement
girldefined.com/responding-hom... .fb.me/6lgj4ZPET
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Girl Defined @Girl_Defined .4 Jun 2014
oan c
cake. christianpost.com/news/baker-for... via @ChristianPost
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 6 May 2014
Should Christians attend the wedding of a gay couple?" Thought provoking
answers from @gotquestions gotquestions.org/gay-wedding.ht...
Girl Defined @Girl_Defined 3 May 2014
Replying to @TrueWoman
"@TrueWoman: Should Christians use the term "Gay Christian"? Here's a helpful
article: buff.ly/1pXr3vm"
Should Christians Use the Term "Gay Christian"?
In his new book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew
Vines seeks to legitimate homosexual practice among
evangelicals. I responded to this heretical teaching [...]
patheos.com
keepingupwithfundies:
totallyrobophobic:
christiangossipgirl:
The only thing Girl Defined uses Twitter for is automated posts from their other platformsβ¦Β
That means the links are still there to their homophobic blog posts theyβve since deleted. Oopsies.
But seriously, Iβm disgusted. They were way more extreme on the topic than I was aware.
They scrubbed their blog after their homophobia was exposed in this YouTube video by Rachel Oates.Β
Being ashamed of your opinion if called out means you know you are wrong. (Annie)](https://pics.me.me/thumb_girl-defined-girl-defined-29-jun-2015-marriage-girldefined-com-keeping-marria-keeping-marriage-42399039.png)
Soft hearted rebellion via /r/wholesomememes https://ift.tt/2LctaaY
timbercow:Some trans gay pride art I made for @hillbillyhorror :)
tigerrknight: The meanings behind the colors. Gay pride flag - Gilbert Baker (1978)
