Fdg Communy, Joy, and a New Sense of Self at Gay Ski Week | Condé Nast Traveler

Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• VANUVER WHISTLER: A GAY SKI WEEK A NORTHWT PARADISE
• GAY WHISTLER & GAY SKI WEEK – WTER PRI
• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• FDG COMMUNY, JOY, AND A NEW SENSE OF SELF AT GAY SKI WEEK
• WHISTLER PRI AND GAY SKI WEEK
• GAY SKI WEEKS: COLOR THE SLOP
• WHISTLER’S GAY SKI WEEK CELEBRAT 20 YEARS
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY SKI
• ​​ASPEN GAY SKI WEEKASPEN GAY SKI WEEKASPEN, COLORADO, JANUARY 15-22HOME TO THE WORLD’S FIRST AND LONGT NNG GAY SKI WEEK, AGSW CELEBRAT S 46TH YEAR THIS JANUARY. THE INIC EVENT CLUS AMBASSADOR-GUID SKIG AND RIDG ON THREE OF ASPEN’S MOUNTAS (AJAX, SNOWMASS, AND HIGHLANDS) AS WELL AS DAILY APRéS-SKI SOIRE, NIGHTS OUT ON THE TOWN, DANCE PARTI, DRAG BGO, A DOWNHILL STUME NTT, AND AN EVENG OF MIC AND EDY WH SANDRA BERNHARD.​WTER RENZVOWOMAN HOLDG SNOW SKI BLAS WHILE WALKG ON SNOWY MOUNTA DURG DAYTIMEPHOTO BY ALA WONG ON UNSPLASHSTOWE, VERMONT, JANUARY 18-22DUBBED “THE BT GAY SKI WEEK THE EAST,” STOWE’S ANNUAL WTER PRI FTIVAL DRAWS HUNDREDS OF LGBTQ+ SKIERS AND RIRS OF EVERY LEVEL FOR FIVE DAYS OF EXPLORG THE RORT’S 116 TRAILS. ADDNALLY, WTER RENZVO’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN WILL CLU ICE SKATG, DOG SLEDDG, HOT TUBBG, BONFIR, POOL PARTI, DRAG BGO, AND LIVE PERFORMANC, CLUDG A TA TURNER TRIBUTE NCERT BY DEBBY HOLIDAY.​WHISTLER PRI AND SKI FTIVALWHISTLER SKIPHOTO BY BENJAM HAYWARD ON UNSPLASHWHISTLER, BRISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, JANUARY 22-29CELEBRATG S 30TH YEAR, WHISTLER’S WTER PRI EVENT RANKS AMONG THE WORLD’S LARGT. SKIERS AND RIRS N FD IMMEDIATE BONDG AND LEARNG EXPERIENC WH GROUPS OF EVERY LEVEL. THERE’S A SKI PARA, MASSIVE POOL PARTY, SNOWBALL FIGHT, ROLLER DIS, ART WALK, CHARY SKI RACE, AND A SLEW OF ROTATG APRèS AND DNER PLANS.​UTAH GAY SKI WEEKMAN RIDG WHE AND RABOW SNOWBOARDPHOTO BY COL LLOYD ON UNSPLASHPARK CY, UTAH, FEBARY 22-26LNCHED 13 YEARS AGO BY ELEVATN FOUNR TOM WHMAN, UTAH’S ANNUAL CELEBRATN HAS GROWN EVERY YEAR, HOSTG QUEERS AND IENDS OM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THIS YEAR, UTAH GAY SKI WEEK FEATUR GUID SKIG AND RIDG AT PARK CY AND NEARBY DEER VALLEY AS WELL AS THEMED STUME APRéS-SKI MEET-UPS, DNERS, AND DANCE PARTI.​TELLURI GAY SKI WEEKTELLURI MOUNTA VERED WH SNOW UNR WHE CLOUDS DURG DAYTIMEPHOTO BY THOMAS KELLEY ON UNSPLASHTELLURI, COLORADO, FEBARY 25 – MARCH 4G KENWORTHY’S STUNNGLY BETIFUL HOMETOWN HAS THROWN DOWN EVERY WTER SCE 2002. FOR 2023, SBG PRODUCTNS (PRODUCERS OF THE SKI TOWN’S BLU AND JAZZ FTIVALS) TAK OVER TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK. KICKG OFF WH THE HISTORIC TELLURI AIDS BENEF FASHN SHOW, WILL CLU GUID SKI GROUPS, LIVE MIC, HAPPY HOURS, POOL PARTI, YOGA, AN ART WALK, SLEIGH RI DNER, AND DRAG BNCH.​JASPER PRI & SKI FTIVAL

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

How the Whistler Pri & Ski Ftival has celebrated gay pri for the last three s and bee the largt event of s kd. We're proud to be nsired by many as the "the largt, gay-iendly mounta rort North Ameri" where diversy is celebrated as a way of life. Vanuver is host to many summer events celebratn of Gay Pri.

No matter which season you choose to vis, you’ll fd a wi selectn of LGBTQIA2S+iendly acmodatns and an endls array of amazg, year-round activi (cludg the legendary annual Gay & Lbian Ski & Snowboard Ftival that’s been a mt-attend event for over 25 years). Whistler is proud to be nsired by many as the "the largt gay-iendly mounta rort North Ameri" where diversy is celebrated as a way of life.

* TAG (Travel Alternativ Group) is an iative of Communy Marketg San Francis, approvg hotels based on regnized gay-iendly standards and creria.

VANUVER WHISTLER: A GAY SKI WEEK A NORTHWT PARADISE

They provi diversy and sensivy trag for employe and employ staff that reflect the diversy of the muny, cludg gay and lbian employe all levels of employment. As well, they empower guts and employe to be "watchdogs" of s gay and lbian bs practic.

GAY WHISTLER & GAY SKI WEEK – WTER PRI

One of the biggt and bt gay and lbian ski weeks North Ameri, the lourful & vibrant pri week featur a packed schle of skig, snowboardg, parti, arts and culture and social events. When Whistler’s first gay ski week was held Febary 1992, was a relatively small and discreet event; s lack of advertisg and visual prence ma easy to miss when gog through the lol newspapers and archival rerds om that time. In 1992, Brent Benaschak, who had recently opened a bed and breakfast Whistler, wanted to create a gay-iendly space both on the mounta and the valley while also attractg new visors.

His pany, Out on the Slop, produced Altu, the first rnatn of a gay ski week Whistler.

In the mid-1990s, Altu anizers lnched a pk dot mpaign to show lol bs the enomic value of the gay ski week. Enomics were not enough to w over all of the crics, however, and Altu’s growth the early 1990s led to some homophobic reactns.

10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS

In 1994, homophobic flyers were distributed unr bs doors and on r wdows around Whistler durg the event. The flyers had the oppose effect than tend and rallied many rints and bs to publicly fend and monstrate their support for the ftival, cludg Mayor Ted Nebbelg, the first openly gay mayor Brish Columbia.

Openly gay, Mayor Ted Nebbelg pulls the sword om the stone as he opens the Exlibur Gondola 1994.

FDG COMMUNY, JOY, AND A NEW SENSE OF SELF AT GAY SKI WEEK

This amendment led to lls to boytt the state and many people who had planned to attend Aspen’s gay ski week chose to attend Altu stead. Amendment 2 was later clared unnstutnal by the Supreme Court of the Uned Stat 1996, by which time Whistler’s gay ski week was tablished. Wh only twelve days to go before the ftival was set to beg, Sean Kearns (who owned the travel webse) reced Dean Nelson, Wayne Hartrick, Mark Clements-Kearns and Tatiana Kostiak to put together a stripped-down versn rebrand as GayWhistler Gay Ski Week.

The Whistler Pri and Ski Ftival is more than jt a gay ski week, is an 8-day ftival that b Sports, Culary, Wellns and spectacular Social and Cultural events.

WHISTLER PRI AND GAY SKI WEEK

The highlight of the event is the Closg “Snowball” together wh the Ski Out event, a gay para through the town of Whistler. Where to stay Gay Whistler. The premier wter gay & lbian vatn and travel event Canada.

When I talk to iends about potentially attendg a Gay Ski Week this year, they still ask, “What is a Gay Ski Week?

"Gay ski weeks” origated the 1970s, when queer ski clubs Chigo and var California ci started ngregatg annually Aspen. In those tim, the events were not much more than a sual get together over some après-ski beers, gay ski weeks over time veloped to more flhed-out happengs wh full-blown parti, drag shows, edy nights, live mic, and charable fundraisg ponents.

GAY SKI WEEKS: COLOR THE SLOP

If you’re terted learng a b more about diversy on the slop this season, here are a few gay ski weeks to check out.

Miguel Mendoza/ElevatnElevatn Ski Week: MammothMammoth, California, USA“It’s a whole vibe, ” said Eric Bog, a skier om Los Angel who has attend Mammoth Gay Ski Week multiple tim. ” Put on by gay party productn pany Elevatn for over twenty years, Mammoth Gay Ski Week attracts a large Southern California ntgent ( part bee ’s pretty ted to get there om the East Coast). Karsten Wegeart/UnsplashAspen Gay Ski WeekAspen, Colorado, USAThe alpha and the omega of gay ski weeks, Aspen Gay Ski Week has been nng for over forty-five years, and grew out of those sual gathergs that began the 1970’s.

WHISTLER’S GAY SKI WEEK CELEBRAT 20 YEARS

Aspen Gay Ski Week is also the annual fundraisg event for AspenOUT, a non-prof muny anizatn that provis support and servic to LGBTQ+ people across the Aspen valley. Telluri Gay Ski WeekTelluri, Colorado, USAIf Aspen is the OG of gay ski weeks, then Telluri is the up-and-er. And if you’re a fan of Olympic etyle skier and Telluri lol G Kenworthy, you may want to add this gay ski week to your erary—mor has he mak an unofficial appearance most years.

Arosa Gay Ski WeekArosa, SwzerlandIf you aren’t faiar wh the idyllic Swiss village of Arosa, then get wh the program—while don’t offer the most thrillg terra relative to the rt of the Alps, ’s large enough to explore over multiple days, is easily nnected via tram to the neighborg village of Lenzerhei, and is easily accsed via a two-hour tra om the Zürich airport. Pl, wh only about six hundred atten, has a much more timate atmosphere than some of the larger, longer-nng gay ski weeks. Leo Mens/UnsplashGay Ski Week HakubaHakuba, JapanJapan’s legendary powr dumps and rich après-ski culture (onsen dip then steamg hot ramen, anyone?

TAG ARCHIV: GAY SKI

This gay ski week also offers plenty of activi for non-skiers, as well, cludg yoga, snowmobilg, and, of urse, karaoke. Ntled high the French Alps and wh over 1, 000 participants each year, Europe’s largt gay ski week has bee somethg of an stutn—’s even sponsored by the gay datg app, Scff. Après-ski ssns and eveng parti are a particular strength for this gay ski week, which attracts a roster of top ejays and drag queens to keep the party gog late to the Pri QueenstownQueenstown, New ZealandSki season only to an end if you let .

​​ASPEN GAY SKI WEEKASPEN GAY SKI WEEKASPEN, COLORADO, JANUARY 15-22HOME TO THE WORLD’S FIRST AND LONGT NNG GAY SKI WEEK, AGSW CELEBRAT S 46TH YEAR THIS JANUARY. THE INIC EVENT CLUS AMBASSADOR-GUID SKIG AND RIDG ON THREE OF ASPEN’S MOUNTAS (AJAX, SNOWMASS, AND HIGHLANDS) AS WELL AS DAILY APRéS-SKI SOIRE, NIGHTS OUT ON THE TOWN, DANCE PARTI, DRAG BGO, A DOWNHILL STUME NTT, AND AN EVENG OF MIC AND EDY WH SANDRA BERNHARD.​WTER RENZVOWOMAN HOLDG SNOW SKI BLAS WHILE WALKG ON SNOWY MOUNTA DURG DAYTIMEPHOTO BY ALA WONG ON UNSPLASHSTOWE, VERMONT, JANUARY 18-22DUBBED “THE BT GAY SKI WEEK THE EAST,” STOWE’S ANNUAL WTER PRI FTIVAL DRAWS HUNDREDS OF LGBTQ+ SKIERS AND RIRS OF EVERY LEVEL FOR FIVE DAYS OF EXPLORG THE RORT’S 116 TRAILS. ADDNALLY, WTER RENZVO’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN WILL CLU ICE SKATG, DOG SLEDDG, HOT TUBBG, BONFIR, POOL PARTI, DRAG BGO, AND LIVE PERFORMANC, CLUDG A TA TURNER TRIBUTE NCERT BY DEBBY HOLIDAY.​WHISTLER PRI AND SKI FTIVALWHISTLER SKIPHOTO BY BENJAM HAYWARD ON UNSPLASHWHISTLER, BRISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, JANUARY 22-29CELEBRATG S 30TH YEAR, WHISTLER’S WTER PRI EVENT RANKS AMONG THE WORLD’S LARGT. SKIERS AND RIRS N FD IMMEDIATE BONDG AND LEARNG EXPERIENC WH GROUPS OF EVERY LEVEL. THERE’S A SKI PARA, MASSIVE POOL PARTY, SNOWBALL FIGHT, ROLLER DIS, ART WALK, CHARY SKI RACE, AND A SLEW OF ROTATG APRèS AND DNER PLANS.​UTAH GAY SKI WEEKMAN RIDG WHE AND RABOW SNOWBOARDPHOTO BY COL LLOYD ON UNSPLASHPARK CY, UTAH, FEBARY 22-26LNCHED 13 YEARS AGO BY ELEVATN FOUNR TOM WHMAN, UTAH’S ANNUAL CELEBRATN HAS GROWN EVERY YEAR, HOSTG QUEERS AND IENDS OM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THIS YEAR, UTAH GAY SKI WEEK FEATUR GUID SKIG AND RIDG AT PARK CY AND NEARBY DEER VALLEY AS WELL AS THEMED STUME APRéS-SKI MEET-UPS, DNERS, AND DANCE PARTI.​TELLURI GAY SKI WEEKTELLURI MOUNTA VERED WH SNOW UNR WHE CLOUDS DURG DAYTIMEPHOTO BY THOMAS KELLEY ON UNSPLASHTELLURI, COLORADO, FEBARY 25 – MARCH 4G KENWORTHY’S STUNNGLY BETIFUL HOMETOWN HAS THROWN DOWN EVERY WTER SCE 2002. FOR 2023, SBG PRODUCTNS (PRODUCERS OF THE SKI TOWN’S BLU AND JAZZ FTIVALS) TAK OVER TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK. KICKG OFF WH THE HISTORIC TELLURI AIDS BENEF FASHN SHOW, WILL CLU GUID SKI GROUPS, LIVE MIC, HAPPY HOURS, POOL PARTI, YOGA, AN ART WALK, SLEIGH RI DNER, AND DRAG BNCH.​JASPER PRI & SKI FTIVAL

And then, of urse, there’s Gay Whistler (), the week-long Pri and Ski Ftival that has been attractg legns of snow bunni for more than 25 years.

The project’s succs enabled the proliferatn of Pri Ho throughout the world to better champn LGBT equaly (pecially important gay-uniendly lol such as Sochi, Rsia). Avid explorer, LGBT activist, and Mr Gay Canada People’s Choice – our gut thor Brian Webb knows a good time when he se .

Follow Brian and HomoCulture to stay up to date wh the latt gay culture, and read on for his expose of Whistler’s Pri and Ski Ftival (’s not all skig and snowboardg, you know)…. Photo cred: Brian Webb, HomoCulture | Decked out rabow Pri flags, Whistler Village is the perfect host, showsg te Canadian hospaly.