In 1984, a small group of gay men and lesbian women stepped away from London's vibrant gay scene to support a beleaguered mining community in the remote valleys of South Wales. They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners' strike--the most bitter and divisive dispute for more than half a century. In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher's social and fiscal policies devastated Britain's traditional industries, as AIDS began to claim lives across the nation...