The words “lesbians and gays” that appear in the official description and art are nowhere to be seen on the American version, but a source close to the situation says CBS Films and Sony Home Entertainment are working together to find out the source of the change.
The original artwork for Pride
Sony Pictures via Nicola Dove / CBS Films
The back of the U.S. DVD box for Pride
Sony Pictures via Nicola Dove / CBS Films
Pride ended 2014 on a high note — with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy or Musical — but it's starting 2015 with a bit of controversy. The British movie, which tells the true story about a group of LGBT activists who helped a group of striking miners in 1984, was released in the U.S. on DVD on Dec. 23, and, as Pink News first noticed, the synopsis on the back of the DVD has been altered from the one on the movie's official site and press release, seemingly in an effort to downplay the LGBT themes. Also, a banner in the original art for Pride that read "Lesbians & gays support the miners" has been removed from the image on the U.S. DVD box entirely.
The original synopsis reads: "Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all."
And the synopsis on the U.S. DVD box reads: "Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984 and much of blue-collar Great Britain is on strike. For one tiny Welsh village, the strike brings unexpected visitors — a group of London-based activists who decide to raise money to support the strikers' families and want to make their donation in person. In this feel-good, heartwarming comedy, two groups seemingly from worlds apart, discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all."
The latter refers to the group as "London-based activists" rather than the original synopsis's "London-based group of gay and lesbian activists."
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