Pride (I) (2014)

Ben Schnetzer: Mark Ashton

Photos 

Quotes 

• [as Mark Leaves to Go to The March] 

  Mark's Crotchety Old Neighbour : I've spoken to the council about your deviant parties.

  Mark : There's no need to do that. Knock on the door, we'd let you in.

  Mark's Crotchety Old Neighbour : They're sending a policeman!

  Mark : Oh, I do hope so.

• [Talking to the receptionist of a Record Company] 

  Receptionist : There are no gay artists on this label. I'm sorry.

  Mark : They don't have to be gay. That's the point. This is a coming together of all different people...

  [Phone Rings, The Receptionist Answers and Shoo's Mike and Mark Away] 

  Mark : [as They Leave the Building, Mark Runs Off to the Side] 

  Mike : What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?

  [Mark is Writing on the Wall Underneath Two Posters] 

  Mark : That's the number for Gay Switchboard. You never know. One of them might need it one day.

  [the Two Posters are Revealed to Be of Soft Cell and Elton John] 

• Bromley : They called us perverts.

  Mark : Bromley, it's time for an important part of your education. Hands up, in this room, if you've ever been called a name like that.

  [all the guys raise their hands] 

  Mark : Now, there is a long and honorable tradition in the gay community and it has stood us in good stead for a very long time. When somebody calls you a name... am I right Jonathan?

  Jonathan : Dead right.

  Mark : You take it and own it.

• Journalist 2 : And why should gay people like me support the miners?

  Mark : Because miners dig for coal, which produces power, which allows gay people like you to dance to Bananarama till 3 o'clock in the morning.

• Mark : And we've got a name: LGSM. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.

  Steph : It's not very catchy.

  Mark : It's a support group, Steph, not a skiffle band.

• Reggie : Nobody said anything about hiding who we are.

  Mark : Yes, they did. You.

  Reggie : I just think if everybody takes it easy on the...

  Ray : Flamboyance.

  Reggie : We're more likely to fit in.

  Jonathan : I'm sorry, just to be clear, when you say "flamboyance", you mean gay. And when you say "everyone", you mean me.

  Mark : Jonathan.

  Jonathan : Good. It's just I haven't spoken 1950s in quite a while.

• Mark : [on the phone trying to find a band for the Pits & Perverts ball]  It's a fund-raising concert, and we're lookin' for bands to... no! No! No, no, no, I am in no way suggesting that Sting, or indeed any other member of The Police, is a pervert.