Extended reading: Pride

Themes:

Police Brutality

Homophobia

Solidarity

Marginalisation

Neoliberalism (free market capitalism) (idea that businesses can make money at the expense of others)

- Margaret Thatcher was a neoliberalist

Deviant subculture (link to Stanley Cohen) - Moral panic theory: Miners going against Thatcher was wrong, Gays and lesbians lifestyle was wrong.

Intersectionality: Marginalisation of groups as it is all about equality (discrimination). Based on Age, gender, race, sexuality, class etc.

Grand narrative: over-arching ideas that we believe. Factions that don't believe in homosexuality.

How might the video link to the characters?

Intersectionality acknowledges that all of the discriminations exist.

Legislation is understood to protect white women

Legislation is understood to protect black men

Kimberly Crenshaw

Who is being oppressed in pride?

The Gays and Lesbians will have faced homophobia and some will even face class discrimination.

The black Gays and lesbians will have faced racism, sexism, class discrimination and homophobia.

The miners will have faced discrimination such as racism, sexism and class discrimination

- Ageism

- Sexism

- Racism

- Homophobia

- Class

- Ableism

All of them may be present in a persons life.

A young able woman may be less likely to experience sexism in a workplace.

Binary opposition:

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