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 A typical Toffs Sunday would be compered by a Lily Savage-esque MC, who made it onto the YSTV quotes board with "no I will not play the f***ing YMCA".  The music was usually identical with each visit, featuring copious amounts of Hanson, Britney and the inevitable B*Witched megamix - not just C'est La Vie and Rollercoaster, but Jessie Hold On too!  The second Big Gay Sunday even saw the start of two YSTV relationships. (Albeit straight ones!)
-The social was referenced in [[Good Morning Campus]] as an example of what YSTV had got up to in the previous year.  After this point the social rarely happened - mainly because Toffs decided they didn't want to be associated with something like a gay night.  There were occasional revivals though, including one in early 2007, after Toffs realised that if they didn't market Sunday as a gay night, no-one would go, so it re-became a gay night after all.
+The social was referenced in [[Good Morning Campus]] as an example of what YSTV had got up to in the previous year, but as the station entered 2005-6 the social all but died out.  This was partly because of the graduation of a number of members but it also coincided with Toffs deciding they didn't want to be associated with something like a gay night, and denying that they had ever held one.  Soon after however, Toffs realised that if they didn't market Sunday as a gay night, no-one would go, so it re-became a gay night after all.
 [[Image:Gaysunday3.jpg|thumb|right|The whole crowd at the very first BGS in 2004]]
 [[Image:Gaysunday4.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jonathan Bufton|Jonathan]]]]
 [[Image:BGS.jpeg|thumb|right|The 2007 Reunion (the last ever?)]]
-A revival of the social took place on 1st July 2007, coinciding with the station's 40th anniversary celebrations.  A number of YSTV members past and present went to The Nag's Head followed by Toffs (also the first ever smoke-free night at the club).  The event was subtitled "The Reunion" but later got given the name "The Final F***", because it was possibly the last ever Big Gay Sunday, at least to feature much of the original group.
+A revival of the social took place on 1st July 2007, coinciding with the station's 40th anniversary celebrations the night before.  A number of YSTV members past and present went to The Nag's Head followed by Toffs (also the first ever smoke-free night at the club).  The event was subtitled "The Reunion" but later got given the name "The Final F***", because it was almost certainly the last ever Big Gay Sunday to feature much of the original group.  Those there at the first and last BGS were [[Sarah Selby]], [[Kate Rushworth]], [[Rowan de Pomerai]], [[Dave Baker]] and [[Jonathan Bufton]], with [[Jen Ayerst]] not quite making it into Toffs due to work committments the next day.
 Photos of the [[http://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/miscphotos/index.php?page=1&perpage=12 first]] and [[http://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/bgs2/ second]] Big Gay Sundays are on the YSTV website.