[6][7] The group grew rapidly and moved out of the bookshop to a larger venue—The Fallen Angel, a gay pub in Graham Street, Islington, which LGSM had also used as a fundraising location.

[12] The money raised was used to buy a white minibus to help transport the miners and their families for giving speeches relevant to their campaign.

The largest fundraising event that LGSM organised was the "Pits and Perverts" benefit concert, which was held in the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town, London, on 10 December 1984.

[14] The title of the fundraiser event is claimed by many to have originated as a headline in the British tabloid The Sun "perverts supporting the Pits",[5] but this remains unproven.

[11][12] The alliances which the campaign forged between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) community and British labour groups proved to be an important turning point in the progression of LGBT matters in the United Kingdom.

It includes the minutes of the weekly meetings, correspondence, press cuttings, publicity material, enamel badges, photographs and the group's banner.

[1] The London group's alliance with the Welsh mining village of Onllwyn is dramatised in the 2014 film, Pride, which was directed by Matthew Warchus.

These were Mike Jackson (Secretary), Dave Lewis (Press Officer), Martin Goodsell and Brett Haran (Treasurers).

); respond to speaker requests; develop and maintain the website and to attend directly related mineworkers' legacy events such as the Durham Miners' Gala.

The legacy group gained the approval of a substantial majority of the former members in supporting Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in August 2016.

He made extensive audio recordings of original members of LGSM and the mining families and activists they twinned with in South Wales.