Forty years ago Dai Donovan was walking through the streets of London leading the LGBTQ+ community at Pride.
But Dai was not a gay man, he was a Welsh miner showing the friendship and solidarity that miners and their families had received from the gay community the previous year.
Meanwhile closer to his home, a small band of people were holding Cardiff's first ever Pride event.
Dai said those events were a landmark moment as it was the first time the public recognised how people were being vilified by society because of their sexuality.
"The mining families attending London Pride in 1985 was important because it was the very first time since the strike that members had to show their friendship, but more importantly their solidarity with the gay community," he said.
