Do you love to play dress up? How about frolicking around the city with your closest friends in tow? Do you like competing with other people for fun and exciting prizes that you can take home at the end of the night?

If this just sounds like a typical Saturday night at the gay bar, think again. It’s Calgary’s very first GAYmazing race! Loosely based on the hit TV show, the GAYmazing race is a fun and competitive fundraiser for Calgary Pride 2010 being held in town on Saturday, May 8th.

Come join your peers as they race around the city on teams of 1 to 4 people, in a photo scavenger hunt through various LGBT friendly locations, and get the chance to complete fun tasks and figure out clues that will lead you to the next spot on the hunt, and eventually straight across the finish line.

But don’t go speeding your way through the day too fast. Just because your team finishes first, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve won the race. Judges will be looking for creative team names and wacky costumes, as well as creative and interesting ways to complete your tasks throughout the day, in order to earn extra points and help your chances of winning. So make sure to combine all of your fabulous gay powers together to come up with the most exciting and imaginative ways to journey through some of our city’s hottest gay spots – and learn a thing or two about the LGBT community while you’re at it!

And as if that’s not enough, Pride Calgary will be throwing a wrap up party following the race, where all of the contestants and their friends to get a chance to meet each other and share some good times, while the GAYmazing prizes are awarded.  The location of the party will be revealed in the contestants’ last clue of the day, but will be given with enough time to call up your friends and have them join you.

If you happen to be a newcomer to Calgary, don’t be discouraged - those who have lived here their whole lives don’t necessarily have an advantage. The GAYmazing race is a great way for people who grew up here and for newbies to discover new gay friendly places throughout the city, which will help to expand our community even more and help to bring us all closer together.

So get your team members together, and download a registration form as soon as they become available on Pride Calgary’s website, to sign up for this unique and fun event.
Hope to see you all there, looking GAYmazing as ever!