The group elected four original core members to carry the legacy of the group onwards. LGSM announced on 9 October 2015 that they would "wind down as a current campaigning force", saying that they did not want to become "a LGBT version of the British Legion".
They also accepted invitations to 2015 Pride marches in Derry, Doncaster, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Norwich, Liverpool Pride, Belfast and Leeds Pride. They were also slated to lead the 2015 Pride in London parade but withdrew in favour of marching further back after organisers refused to allow other affiliated groups, such as trade union contingents, to march with the LGSM. The group was chosen to lead the 2015 Birmingham Pride parade, in recognition of their historic status. In 2015, following the film's release, the surviving members of the organisation held a 30th anniversary reunion to raise funds for the Mark Ashton Fund, an HIV/AIDS charitable fund administered by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Several of the surviving group members participated in the film's promotion. 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. It includes the minutes of the weekly meetings, correspondence, press cuttings, publicity material, enamel badges, photographs and the group's banner.
Īn archive of the London group's work is kept at the People's History Museum in Manchester. The miners' groups were also among the most outspoken allies of the LGBT community in the 1988 campaign against Section 28. At the 1985 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, a resolution committing the party to the support of LGBT rights passed, due to block voting support from the National Union of Mineworkers. Miners' labour groups began to support, endorse and participate in various gay pride events throughout the UK, including leading London's Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in 1985. The alliances which the campaign forged between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) community and British labour groups proved to be an important turning point in the progression of LGBT matters in the United Kingdom. The title of the benefit is claimed by many to have originated as a headline in the British tabloid The Sun but this remains unproven. The event was headlined by Bronski Beat and its lead singer, Jimmy Somerville. 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. In addition to raising approximately £22,500 for the families who were on strike, there were reciprocal visits. In November 1984, a group of lesbians broke away from LGSM to form a separate group, Lesbians Against Pit Closures, although some lesbians remained active in the LGSM campaign rather than joining the women-only group. The London group was twinned with the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valleys Miners Support Groups. The group grew rapidly and moved out of Gay's The Word to a larger venue: The Fallen Angel, a gay pub in Graham Street, Islington. The London LGSM group met and fundraised in numerous locations, including the Gay's the Word bookshop. Among these organisations, the LGSM was formed by Communist Party of Great Britain activist Mark Ashton and his friends, after the two men collected donations for the miners at the 1984 Lesbian and Gay Pride march in London. Instead, support groups in Britain were encouraged to "twin" with the various mining communities in England, Scotland and Wales. During the strike, the Thatcher government sequestered the funds of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), meaning that it was pointless for supporters of the strike to send donations to the national union.