10 Gay Ski Weeks and Wter Pri Celebratns - Vatner Magaze

Contents:

• AROSA GAY SKI WEEK
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS
• ALPE ADVENTURE: AROSA GAY SKI WEEK'S SWISS MIST
• AROSA GAY SKI WEEK 2023: THE HISTORY, VILLAGE, DRAG RACE, AND MORE!
• AROSA GAY SKI WEEK 2022
• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

AROSA GAY SKI WEEK

Wh more than 600 guts, this lourful week has bee one of the bt gay and lbian wter vatn events Europe. Image sparklg alpe days wh h powr, breath-takg mounta views, iendly firi chats, warmg mulled we, awome parti, lic dg and great gay mararie.

14 gay-iendly partner hotels and a large selectn of holiday apartments and chalets are offerg special packag allowg you to pick one that match your taste and wallet. Informatn +41 21 566 70 20 (10:00-19:00 lol time)Vere Arosa Gay Ski Week Poststrasse 142, 7050 Arosa - Swzerland. The Arosa Gay Ski Week promis a perfect blend of real wter flair, bt entertament and qualy acmodatn.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS

We offer the bt snow ndns, many sunny days and over 600 participants make our event one of the most famo and popular gay and lbian ski week Europe. - Program 2023 Saturday18 March Sunday19 March Monday20 March Tuday21 March Wednday22 March Thursday23 March Friday24 March Saturday25 March Optnal activi Arrival Wele to GaySki – we hope you had a safe and at least somewhat enjoyable journey.

While some ski rorts ral regns still lack full LGBTQ+ acceptance, avid skiers or snowboarrs seekg a gay-iendly experience will be pleased to know that progrsive attus are on the up. Gay skig is a whole mood, tered to by an ever-expandg number of gay ski events anised by open-md ski rorts across the globe.

As well as all the powred snow sports you uld dream of, gay snow holidays also enpass wilrns adventure, wild parti and plenty of après ski. Don your ski-su to fd out what you’re missg out on, wh Mr Hudson’s top 10 gay skig holidays. Aspen, Colorado, USAWe start our gui to the bt gay ski holidays Colorado, home to the southern portn of the Rocky Mountas, as well as the cy of Denver and largely liberal attus relative to the rt of the Wtern US stat.

ALPE ADVENTURE: AROSA GAY SKI WEEK'S SWISS MIST

Aspen gay scene is well tablished and the rort pris self on s long-standg liberal attu, wh the annual Aspen Gay Ski Week nng sce 1977. Mammoth Mountas, California, USAContug on the all-Amerin theme, our send choice of gay ski statns tak to the Mammoth Mountas California.

The state’s bt skig spot, Mammoth Ski Area lays claim as the origal home of ‘Elevatn Ski Week’, an annual event which has sce bee one of the largt gay ski events the US and the world over. March 2020 will see the 18th annual gay ski week at Mammoth, hostg over 2, 500 rirs near Mammoth Lak north of Yoseme.

AROSA GAY SKI WEEK 2023: THE HISTORY, VILLAGE, DRAG RACE, AND MORE!

One of the most gay-iendly ski rorts the Alps wh a rabow flag flyg all year round, Arosa cements s LGBTQ+ advote stat each January durg Arosa Gay Ski Week, when 600 lbian and gay wter sports fans une. Lenzerhei, SwzerlandHome of ‘GaySki’ sce s foundatn 1992, Lenzerhei is Arosa’s slightly olr , sharg the same breath-takg scenery and love of gay culture. Held at Hotel Schweizerhof and n by volunteers, GaySki has been built as an stutn, unlike other large mercial events.

AROSA GAY SKI WEEK 2022

In March 2020, Lenzerhei celebrat the 25th anniversary of SWING Gay Ski Week where pass holrs are guaranteed both snow and a packed schle of socialisg events. In January every year durg the Whistler Pri & Ski Ftival, gay culture tak over wh each base offerg a mishmash of wild events, om fetish parti to dner parti wh dance events thrown .

As well as beg the official European trag base of the US ski team, Söln is also a base for LGBT culture, wh the Söln Gay Snow Happeng brgg people together annually sce 1998 for ski events and lively Après-Ski activi (this year’s Happeng tak place March 2020). As well as skig and snowboardg on open terra, other activi clu ice skatg, snowmobilg and snowshoeg, topped off durg the month of Augt when the ternatnal LGBT muny scends for Gay Ski Week Queenstown at Cardrona Alpe Sebastian StaWhile you might envisage Spa as a hot and sweaty seasi suatn, the Spanish Pyrene will change your md wh wtery weather, northern-facg ski slop and perfect snow ndns Photo: Erik Odi8.

Boí Taüll’s Snow Gay Weekend, hosted by ‘Rabow Barcelona Tours’ is now s fifth year, acmodatg an ever-growg number of atten (currently around 200, mostly om Spa and France), for a week of timate ski events, parti and more, at an affordable price. Reprentg the open-mdns and diverse valu of the Canadian Rocki, the rort celebrat Jasper Pri Ftival annually March, anisg a rabow flag skig para and other gay-iendly events servg to nnect the rint queer muny, LGBT travellers and upl on the slop before unwdg Jasper’s lively bars and rtrants. European Snow Pri at Espace Killy, FranceThe cherry on top of our gay wter sundae is European Snow Pri, which tak place at Espace Killy the French Alps.

10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS

Sce s iatn 2012, this ftival has sce bee one of the most important gay ski weeks Europe attractg around 1, 000 gays om all over the world. European Snow Pri is qualy choice for ser skiers and partygoers alike, as the rort spans 300 kilometr of ski ns, across the Val d’Isere and Tign ski areas, offerg an imprsive le-up of Après-Ski DJs, artists and dancers om Europe’s bt gay clubs, amongst the most extraordary mounta scenery. Swzerland's tourism partment wants to change that, and recently weled a group of Amerin travel wrers to promote LGBTQ tourism Swzerland, as well as Arosa's gay ski week.

In addn to Arosa Gay Ski Week, we took tours of Lsanne, Bern, and Zurich, all the while stayg at five-star hotels and dg at top-rated Zurmuehle om the Swiss Tourism met the junket members at the airport and hand our Swiss Travel Pass, which is fabulo way to tour the untry. After dner we took the Metro to The Moxy Hotel which hosts a weekly "Oh My Gay" Sunday tea dance. After dner we grabbed a nightp at Helnbar, which looked exactly as you would image a gay club Europe to look; lots of eccentrilly drsed, unbearably th folks, wh severe make-up and tertg eyewear.

Wh more than a dozen gay-iendly partner hotels, weekly rental apartments and chalets, there's somethg for every wallet.

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

The fondue dner at Rtrant Burtübli the Hotel Arlenwald is one of the most popular events of Gay Ski week. Hundreds of gay men and women travel annually to Arosa, Swzerland January, for the iendly week-long celebratn, supported by lols and the muny – and everyone’s ved.

This stunng Swiss alpe village is a rare gem that offers everythg om snow to adventure to fe dg and this gay ski week tak advantage of every morsel! But the village has bee a popular statn for LGBTQ+ travelers bee of the annual Arosa Gay Ski Week, and Vatner Magaze was there to tch the gays olickg the snow. But 2006, Lsanne native Alex Herkommer was ved to the event and after seeg how profsnal L anized the event; he joed forc wh L to create the non-prof anizatn, The Arosa Gay Ski Week.

Herkommer rells: “It was not easy at first, as people Arosa didn’t unrstand what a gay ski week was and thought, ‘do we really need this kd of event?