Pride is a film where U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
One of the Welsh stereotypes is 'anti-gay', and this is dealt with well in the film, as the plot includes the miners make peace with the gay community and end up helping each other. Welsh people are known to be very traditional, as they live in rural communities and lack the general knowledge of the current day trends.
There was non-digetic sound (choir singing) in the background at the start, setting the scene that this film is patriotically Welsh. This music was played over short clips of the classic Welsh countryside, and stereotyped slogans such as 'in the valleys' was used.
There is one small scene in the trailer that shows an old Welsh woman asking a gay male about something that could be seen as inappropriate. We know this because another woman tries to stop her from saying it, but she carries on. This could be because the older woman may not know an awful lot about the topic, as Welsh people stereotypically live in traditional smaller communities.
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