"It felt important to tell a queer story that isn't about leaving - that shows Simon and Ryan can build a life together in this town, that they can be accepted there and feel artistically fulfilled," McMillan says.
also examines Margaret Thatcher's lingering impact on Barnsley: in the 1980s, she brutally closed the coal mines that were once this - and many other towns' - lifeblood. She also enacted Section 28, a cruel piece of legislation that forbade the so-called "promotion" of homosexuality in schools. We're still feeling its shockwaves today.
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