GMFA/RVT Gay Sports Day celebrates ten consecutive years of events on August Bank Holiday Monday (29), raising funds for GMFA, Vauxhall City Farm and Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
If you didn’t make Team GB for the Rio Olympics, don’t despair, everyone is welcome to take part, in this much-loved annual sports event, which takes place, come rain or shine, in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, behind the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and, when the weather is truly appalling, also in the RVT itself.
When it comes to breaking down barriers in the community the Gay Sports Day is the ultimate sporting event. It doesn’t matter if you are young, young at heart, thin, ‘fulsome’, fabulously flamboyant or a retiring wallflower secretly bursting to blossom, everyone is welcome to take part, whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, non-binary or even heterosexual.
Being the 10th birthday, there will be some extra fun surprises alongside the hugely popular regular events such as the 50 metre mince, drag relay, tug o’ war, egg and spoon race and everyone’s favourite – the handbag toss. Whatever the weather, all event teams, will be guided by Timberlina with her unwilting inimitable panache.
Team registration is now open, with up to 21 teams (five people per team) able to compete.
Matthew Hodson of GMFA, said: “Gay Sports Day is one of the highlights of the year. After two damp years we’re due some blazing sunshine this year but, even if it rains, we always manage to have a great time. So bring your brollies or bring you sunscreen (or, this being England, you may need to bring both) just be sure to register your team if you want to take part.
“As it’s the 10th of the GMFA Sports Days, we want it to be even bigger, bolder and more outrageous than before. Sports Day raises funds for GMFA’s sexual health information and for FS magazine, which receive no Government funding. The money that we raise at Sports Day helps to ensure that gay and bisexual men have access to the frank information that they need about HIV and sexual health.”
Timberlina will be ably assisted as ever by two of sports broadcasting’s leading lights – Rugby World Cup commentator Nick Heath and TalkSPORT’s Bob Ballard.
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