Heartwarming / Pride (2014)

• When LGSM first makes contact with a village representative willing to work with them, scored by a soft guitar rendition of a few tentative notes of Solidarity Forever...which burst into a triumphant full orchestral version as the entire office explodes in celebration upon finally receiving their 'yes'.
• When everyone in the Welfare gets up to sing 'Bread and Roses' together.
  • "Bread and Roses," specifically, was a choice both inspired and achingly tender. It's not a hymn but rather a very classic union protest song, which makes it deeply personal for a miner's union to repurpose and offer as a gift to 'a group of screaming homosexuals'.
  • The lyrics of 'Bread and Roses' are one marginalized group pledging support and solidarity with another. Specifically, the lyrics emphasize the idea that the subjects don't merely deserve to live; yes, they deserve protection and to be able to survive, but they also deserve to thrive, to be happy with their loved ones, to be treated with respect. Bread and roses. And then, of course, there's the line that makes the LGSM members present visibly start tearing up, as they realize why the first singer chose this song for the moment:
  Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes.
  Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
• Gethin speaking to Hefina on the phone on Christmas, when she wishes him Happy Christmas in Welsh and coaxes him to think about coming back to Wales for a visit. Also a major Tear Jerker when Gethin says it back, nearly unable to speak.
  • Gethin says in the very beginning that he hasn't been back to Wales in sixteen years, he's been living in London the whole time. It has been nearly twenty years since he was spoken to in his own language, and Hefina's casual "Nadolig llawen" has him visibly in tears before he even has time to reply.
  • Gethin: "I'm in Wales! And I don't have to pretend to be something I'm not! I'm home, and I'm gay, and I'M WELSH!"
• Another one that doubles as a Tear Jerker from Gethin: "Hello, Mum."
  • She visits him in the hospital. Thankfully, Gethin was "only" hospitalized as the result of a gay-bashing from which he recovers...but this is a gay man, with an HIV+ partner, in a hospital in 1984, with his mother at his bedside. The odds of that are tragically small, and his soft, transcendent happiness shows how miraculous that reunion really is.
• Cliff comes out to Hefina, and she simply replies that she knows - and has for years. And then they simply carry on as normal.
  • In the ending, he gets to pause and enjoy the fact that he's actually marching in a Pride parade after a lifetime of hiding his sexuality. Then he double-takes seeing a banner promoting gay poetry (as poetry is a passion of his) before falling in with its carriers.
• The Call-Back to Joe's attendance at the Pride parade at the film's start: "Not so worried about being conspicuous now?" "Shut up and march."
• The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, where you learn a) how important LGSM and the miners were for both LGBTQ rights and union rights in Britain, b) how much Sian took Jonathan's advice to heart and became the first female MP of Swansea East, and c) that Jonathan, HIV case #2, is still alive and thriving.
• The last shot of the film: the Dulais Valley Miners' banner being carried at the Gay Pride Parade, a revered relic over a century old, which Dai earlier said is only brought out by the chapter for important occasions.
• Cliff, who has been closeted his whole life, smiles as he marches at the London Pride parade, finding a group of fellow poetry enthusiasts to march with.