Aspen Gay Ski Week to wele fai next month |

Contents:

• ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK TO WELE FAI NEXT MONTH
• ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK DOWNHILL EVENT HAS EVOLVED TO NNECTN WH MUNY
• ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK
• THE STORY OF ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• INTERNATNAL GAY SKI CALENDAR 2020
• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK TO WELE FAI NEXT MONTH

Some might say ASGW (Aspen Gay Ski Week) was and is the first form of LGBTQ+ Pri Aspen. Fd out why Condé Naste lls “The alpha and the omega of gay ski weeks. The legalizatn of gay marriage more than four years ago has led to a rise more gay fai the Uned Stat, acrdg to the owner of a gay-foced travel pany.

“We wanted an optn for them to keep g to Aspen (for Gay Ski Week).

ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK DOWNHILL EVENT HAS EVOLVED TO NNECTN WH MUNY

So as part of next month’s 43rd annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, anizers have created a long weekend Snowmass Village at the end of the week’s ftivi specifilly geared toward gay upl wh children.

17 to 19 — is a partnership between Kamsky’s pany, Fay Equaly, an advocy group for gay fai, and AspenOUT, the nonprof that puts on Gay Ski Week. A handful of gay fai wh children young enough not to be school yet have attend Gay Ski Week — schled for Jan. Now the promotnal backg provid by the partnership wh R Fay Vatns and Fay Equaly, upled wh the fact that next year’s ski week ends on the Mart Luther Kg three-day weekend, was clear the 2020 Aspen Gay Ski Week was the time to try , McManamon said.

ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK

In addn, McManamon would like to make Aspen a statn for gay travelers and fai alike. “There’s lots of (gay) beach statns.

Marketg employe celebrate Aspen Gay Ski week 2019. An enormo rabow flag gets skied down to the base of Aspen Mounta for the annual Gay Ski Week stume downhill petn on Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim. Aspen lol Amelia Nair performs for the Aspen Gay Ski Week downhill on Friday afternoon at the base of Aspen Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

A dachsund stays warm om the snowy afternoon at the base of Aspen Mounta watchg the Gay Ski Week stume Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

THE STORY OF ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK

Pk County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo gettg troduced as one of the annual judg for the Aspen Gay Ski Week downhill stume para on Friday by MC Sister Helen Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim. Lghter the crowd at the base of Aspen Mounta for somethg MC Sister Helen Holy said for the Gay Ski Week downhill stume Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim. MC Sister Helen Holy prayg to the crowd for somethg appropriate she said at the Aspen Gay Ski Week stume downhill at the base of Aspen Mounta on Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

MC Sister Helen Holy speakg to the crowd for the Aspen Gay Ski Week stume downhill at the base of Aspen Mounta on Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim. The Ltle Nell "Silver Queens" performg for the Aspen Gay Ski Week stume downhill para on Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

Snowmass Tourism employe Er Young, left, and Sara Stookey-Sanchez pour fireball for the judg for the Aspen Gay Ski Week downhill stume petn on Friday. The Gay Ski Week crowd for the downhill para at the base of Aspen Mounta on Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

Kemosabe employe Matt Whe gets picked up by Matt Malone, while dancg on stage to "Save a Horse, Ri a Cowboy, " for the annual Gay Ski Week downhill stume para on Friday at the base of Aspen Stonehoe/The Aspen Tim.

Durg the early years of Gay Ski Week, a gaggle of men would drs drag and ski like hell down the once mogul-ridn Ruthie’s Run on Aspen Mounta. Chilled libatns hand, spectators would soak the scene om the pat of the now-funct Ruthie’s Rtrant at the bottom of the n, relled Bce Lee, one of the founrs of the 42-year-old Aspen Gay Ski Week. Gay Ski Week atten chose Ruthie’s as the urse bee of s “big, nasty bumps, ” Lee said this week durg a break the ftivi.

For Gay Ski Week anizers and participants, the downhill stume ntt also is special that is among the few events that tegrate the lol and LGBTQ muni. “I feel like is the one event durg (Gay) Ski Week that brgs the participants and the cy of Aspen together bee the cy people turn out for this, ” said Pl J.

INTERNATNAL GAY SKI CALENDAR 2020

“When I n get posive feedback om (Gay Ski Week) participants, as well as lols who are not even a part of the LGBT muny — that is gratifyg, ” Williams said. Havg led the stume ntt as emcee sce 2001 (wh the exceptn of a brief and recent stt which Logo TV sponsored Gay Ski Week), Sister Helen Holy is now part of the fabric of the event.

“I personally was very skeptil of a straight woman g and takg over this fabulo gay event, ” Williams quipped, “but she has been a godsend. AspenOUT is the nonprof that produc Gay Ski Week and donat 100 percent of the proceeds to LBTGQ lolly and natnally. Aspen Gay Ski Week.

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

Aspen Gay Ski Week (AGSW) is the olst annual, week-long gay ski event the natn. A mol for other gay ski weeks, AGSW offers a unique vatn experience the scenic and historic mounta town of Aspen, Colorado.

Aspen Gay Ski Week is also the annual fundraisg event for AspenOUT, a lol non-prof and 501C3 anizatn foced on anti-bullyg and tolerance. Arguably the biggt party of the wter season, Aspen Gay Ski Week has matured. It was the party culture of the ’70s clashg wh old-fashned unacceptance that led to the formatn of a nonprof to n Aspen Gay Ski Week and e as a force for good the muny.

Durg the , a group of lol men had started regularly hangg out wh gay visors om ski clubs around the untry. By 1977, the rnns beme more official, wh each club hostg parti their ndos on different nights for a week January, and the lol ntgent throwg the wele as liberal as Aspen was, beg gay public wasn’t universally accepted (hence the ndo parti)—a realy that spurred Jon Bch, one of Aspen Gay Ski Week’s founrs, to advote for gay rights after gettg trouble for dancg wh another man at a lol bar. In 1979, Bch and other lol supporters had reason to celebrate when Aspen beme the first municipaly Colorado to pass an anti-discrimatn policy for gays and lbians.