Vicki runs a swimming club for the LGBT community - Londoner #279

Vicki's father got her into sport. She now runs Out To Swim, a swim club for the LGBT community in London which hosts social and training events. Vicky is happy and proud to be part of a strong, powerful team.

This film was made on a workshop with adults at London Sport's Clubworks. Facilitated by Chocolate Films, the participants gained filmmaking skills and created their own short documentary.

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This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.

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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com

TRANSCRIPT

My father got me into sport. He wanted to take me and my sister sailing and he had a little dinghy boat and then he thought maybe before we went sailing we should go swimming, then he spent the next five years watching me and my sister swim up and down a swimming pool and we didn't really do much sailing ever.
So I'm in a swimming club called Out To Swim, I volunteer as a part of Out For Sport which is the umbrella organisation that looks after all the LGBTQ sports clubs in London.
So I'm the co-chair of that umbrella organisation and we run training events and social events.
We try to work as a team all together. In 1994 I just joined the swimming club and I was just starting out starting back with my swimming and we went to the Gay Games in New York. Where and back then was like really the height of the AIDS crisis, a lot of my friends died from AIDS. In New York was possibly the absolute apex of the number of people who was sick and dying, so going at that time to New York is a really moving experience. I felt very proud of us being strong and powerful. One of the guys on our team, he broke a world record and he was actually HIV positive. The complete opposite of the image that was in so many people's minds about what it was to be gay at that time. We brought that feeling back to London.

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