Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week | EGSW | 16-23 March 2024

Contents:

• EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK
• OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK (EGSW) - A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK, L ARCS
• THE 8 BT GAY SKI WEEKS OF 2020
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG VATNS

EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK

Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week. As the mountatops above the French rort of L Menuir blh peach the settg sun, European Gay Ski Week 2018’s daily après-ski ssn on the large terrace of Tex Mex pizzeria hs s stri. “There’s more to the event than jt pornstar-bodied boys prerly overload unrcrackers”For the first time s ten-year history, the nomadic Alpe sports and social ftival had suffered homophobic aggrsn - not once, but twice.

OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK

The first physil attack on European Gay Ski Week (EGSW) guts rulted swift arrts and charg - and thankfully didn’t e any major harm. We will not stand for homophobia any form, and will ntue to show the small-md they will not w, by celebratg our diversy and stayg visible. Gay men and women hug iends and lovers old and new.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK (EGSW) - A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

Straight lols hug gay guts, then hug each other. A veteran of four gay ski weeks (Aspen’s twice and Telluri’s, both Colorado, and a sadly now funct event Åre, Swen) and half a lifetime of Pri celebratns, I’ve never seen such a diverse crowd mixg wh such ease and warmth.

(I disver later that Cha, Azerbaijan and the Bahamas are also among the 43 untri reprented here, among 750-pl EGSW guts) European Gay Ski Week 2018, there were 43 different natnali among the 750 guts. Although I live London now, I’m om Poland, and gay people Central and Eastern Europe are mostly ma to feel like third-class cizens, stuff like this is not unual. ”Wh global LGBTQ+ travel now valued at more than $218 billn a year, the gay ski week format is an tablished staple of pk wter.

10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS

Mills’ bodac creds clu -nng the inic London gay club Heaven for 15 of s most succsful years, beg the UK’s most succsful rave producer for a good chunk of the acid hoe era and legendarily crowng 1985’s London Gay Pri by sendg Dive down the Tham sgg live on top of a paddle steamer. And European Gay Ski Week was a quick sot around and you uld be fiven for thkg that, skig and snowboardg asi, the event is all panto-mp drag, boozy dance parti and pornstar-bodied boys prerly overload unrcrackers. The are the standard, if overworked, marketg trop for LGBTQ+ entertament’s hight-spendg dience sector: gay men.

“It do all look a b generic Eurogay on the surface, don’t ?, ” says Manchter-based alternative drag artist Cheddar Geo (aka Michael Atks PhD).

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

Photo: EGSW“It do all look a b generic Eurogay on the surface, don’t ?, ” says Manchter-based alternative drag artist Cheddar Geo (aka Michael Atks PhD), who has performed at the event for the last four years.

”“There have got to be more ways for gay people to fd muny than dancg around jockstraps shovg dildos up each other, haven’t there ar? That self readjts the way people who may never have enuntered a gay person see .

But there have got to be more ways for gay people to fd muny than dancg around jockstraps shovg dildos up each other, haven’t there ar? I joed him ‘Gays on Trays’ (a chey ‘90s skier-to-snowboarr sult repurposed as team moniker by the fastt of EGSW’s snowboardg groups) to spank pretty much all of the 3 Valleys’ 600km of pist, pl a fair few of the broarcross urs and snow parks, over the urse of the week.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK, L ARCS

Kev and the team are workg pretty hard at makg the event welg to women, who tradnally haven’t been targeted by big LGBTQ+ events the way gay men are. Registerg somewhere between isky and balls-out wild, each night’s dance blowout is hosted by a different high-profile gay club night om around the world. "Each night’s dance blowout is hosted by a different high-profile gay club night om around the world.

This is pretty unique, and far harr to create than jt a mass ski trip - or a bangg talent Carmen, a gay rights activist for more than 20 years, puts . ”European Gay Ski Week 2019 tak place L Arcs, France, om March 23-30th.

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THE 8 BT GAY SKI WEEKS OF 2020

Our gay ski ftival tak place om March 16 to 23, 2024 the gay iendly ski rort of Tign. European Gay Ski Week (EGSW) - a Personal experience.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG VATNS

Conversatns wh iends and lleagu ma me thk about gog skig for the holidays, but as an openly gay man and sgle at the time, the qutn of at-least havg one night at a bar where I uld approach someone whout the threat of beg thumped the face for such 'dignant proposals' beme a big part of my search quiri. Where uld I go for a ski vatn where there was a gay bar, or at-least a gay iendly night a lol bar. In fact, the more I searched the more I found that ski vatns are never open to members of the LGBT muny; I don't need a gay rort, I jt need a place to maybe go wh a group of iends, where I uld have my one night to also flirt and dance, beg myself.

Gay? So we have prepared a summary of how to e and jo European Gay Ski Week the way that sus your budget bt. Has anyone been to European Gay Ski Week or European Snow Pri?

Gay ski weeks and wter Pri events ually offer guts a variety of fun parti to socialize wh other lols, meet people om different rners of the world, and an opportuny to get outdoors and enjoy skig, snowboardg, and other wter activi. So, we pulled together a list of 10 domtic and ternatnal gay ski weeks or wter Pri celebratns that you should nsir attendg when you feel fortable travelg.

Aspen Gay Ski Week 2020 Colorado (Photo Cred: Aspen Gay Ski Week).

Aspen Gay Ski Week, Jan.

16-23, 2022 (Aspen, Colorado, USA)Returng for s 45th year, Aspen Gay Ski Week is touted as the largt and longt-nng gay ski event the Wtern Hemisphere. Produced by lol non-prof AspenOUT, Aspen Gay Ski Week will be jam-packed wh fundraisg events, such as drag bgo, a downhill stume petn, a wboy rave, and a pool party. Start this fun ski week wh a bonfire cktail receptn wh an optn of fun parti, such as a “wet ‘n wild” pool bash, karaoke and drag bgo fundraisers, a firi we and chee party, a show wh edian Shaw Pelofsky, and a fal “Blow Out Dance Party” to p off this fun Gay Ski Week.

Arosa Gay Ski Week, January 22-29, 2022 (Arosa, Swzerland)LGBTQ+ travelers will feel weled Arosa, Swzerland. It’s one of the most gay-iendly ski areas the Alps, and not unmon to see rabow flags flyg high throughout the wter. Jo more than 600 lbian and gay wter sports fans om over 30 different untri and fd out why Arosa Gay Ski Week is “Europe’s favore Queer Ski Pri Week.

Sce 1992 women, men, and everyone between g together at Ski Whistler Blackb to enjoy gay-iendly Wter sports. Elevatn Utah Gay Ski Week Park Cy (Photo Cred: EUSW). Elevatn Utah Gay Ski Week, Febary 23-27, 2022 (Park Cy, Utah, USA)Before COVID, Elevatn Utah weled a rerd number of queer skiers and alli to take on the powry slop of Park Cy and Deer Valley.

Utah’s only gay ski week is set to pull out all the stops wh a r wele party, multiple drag shows, boozy après ski gathergs, and more. Telluri Gay Ski Week, Febary 26-March 5, 2022 (Telluri, Colorado, USA)Wter sports pros nverge on Telluri bee of s 147 ns and a 4, 500-foot vertil drop.