The Bt Gay Ski Weeks Across the US - Thrillist

Contents:

• 6 GAY SKI WEEKS THAT WILL ADD SOME HEAT TO YOUR WTER
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS
• AN LGBTQ PARTY ON THE SLOP AT TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK
• ASPEN GAY TRAVEL
• GAY NIGHTLIFE THE ROCKI: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• SKI CHAMPN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M READY TO BE HAPPY’
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG VATNS
• GAY BAR SKI (CY)
• 46TH ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK EXPANDS ENTERTAMENT AND EVENT OFFERGS

6 GAY SKI WEEKS THAT WILL ADD SOME HEAT TO YOUR WTER

Steamboat, Colorado Although gay ski weeks statns like Crted Butte and Telluri are a well-served source of pri, 's great to see visibily all year long: LGBT lols here Steamboat Sprgs began a monthly social mixer 2009 that's still gog strong. Stowe, VermontVermont nsistently polls as Ameri's most gay-iendly state, and there are lots of great rorts to choose om.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS

When Ski Bums me here 2009, we swore we'd stepped to a gay bar at the hotel La Perla, wh a bright red lacquer bar and a sound system crankg out ABBA tun.

Whistler, Brish ColumbiaThe home of the biggt LGBT ski week is also the largt ski rort North Ameri, Whistler-Blackb, and s gay-iendly wele lasts all season long.

But the tough enomy -- and a surpl of new hotel rooms -- has sprouted bargas Snowmass, where you'll be reward wh wi open terra and some extra change your to go: There's not really a bad time for snow here, but Aspen Gay Ski Week (late January) is a fun time to be town, pecially if you n brg a few iends along wh you. Salt Lake Cy, UtahFet what you've heard about the Book of Mormon boys: Salt Lake Cy is the only place the world wh seven world class ski rorts and seven gay bars wh a 30 mute drive.

AN LGBTQ PARTY ON THE SLOP AT TELLURI GAY SKI WEEK

It's got two pri paras, gay-iendly hotels (like Kimpton's Hotel Mona), openly gay elected officials and a ph by the Salt Lake Cy Visor's Bure to wele LGBT visors. This chic new lounge is the perfect place to start the party before a nighttime vis to Jam, a hopp' gay club downtown SLC. Soon after the December holidays wrap and the New Year kicks off, gay ski weeks beg to st a rabow glow over the snow-whe slop of Ameri’s most popular ski mountas.

After the OG gay ski week was found Aspen nearly five s ago, rort towns om Vermont’s Green Mountas to the Cas Range of Oregon have tablished their own buzzy events that be the thrill of wter sports wh the zs of après ski social gathergs, while simultaneoly fundraisg for LGBTQIA+ anizatns and . Though the gay ski weeks of 2020 and 2021 nceled -person celebratns due to the panmic, many of them will be back for the upg ski season.

ASPEN GAY TRAVEL

And we uld not be more ready to h the, Colorado: January 16-23, 2022Aspen Gay Ski Week is the largt and longt-nng gay ski event the Wtern Hemisphere, and still sets the bar for all the other ftivals that have sce joed the circu of LGBTQIA+ wter happengs. Produced by lol non-prof AspenOUT, Aspen Gay Ski Week will be celebratg s 45th anniversary wh a jam-packed lendar of fundraisg events, such as drag bgo, a downhill stume petn, a wboy rave, and a pool, Vermont: January 19-23, 2022The impossibly quat village of Stowe has hosted Wter Renzvo Ski Week for 38 years, but this year’s celebratn is promisg to make up for an abbreviated schle 2021.

While the full lendar of this year’s events hasn’t been announced yet, 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, Colorado: Febary 26-March 5, 2022Though wter sports pros drool over Telluri’s 147 ns and a 4, 500-foot vertil drop all season, more than 1, 000 revelers of all backgrounds e each year to celebrate Telluri Gay Ski Week. Mammoth Lak, California: March 15-20, 2022Found by Tom Whman, the now-ternatnal Elevatn brand is celebratg 20 years sce s gural Elevatn Mammoth Gay Ski Week Mammoth Lak.

Jt as the year's closg parti mark the end of summer; wter is soon upon aga brgg wh s own host of gay annual events – namely an ternatnal array of gay ski weeks.

GAY NIGHTLIFE THE ROCKI: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Whether you're a virg skier, slope master or even jt there for the parti, gay ski weeks have somethg h and fun to offer. An LGBT+ ski event, often referred to as a gay ski week, is an anized event at a ski rort specifilly for the LGBT+ muny. Gay ski weeks n attract hundreds or even thoands of atten and the anizers put on a variety of shows, parti and gathergs throughout the event.

Packg for a gay ski week will not only volve typil warm wter gear but you may also be enuraged to pack stum for themed events. All gay ski events host a variety of activi and events so be sure to check the schle to see if you need to pack any special outfs, gear or stum. Durg the last week January, the Swiss Alps will heat up as LGBT+ people om across Europe e together to celebrate Arosa Gay Ski Week.

Though not as long-nng as s gay ski week s the Alps like European Gay Ski Week or Arosa Gay Ski Week, Mari Montaña is not to be missed. Aspen Gay Ski Week is a ski week held January for a good e: raisg money for AspenOUT – a non-prof anisatn seekg to promote anti-bullyg policy and tolerance throughout the USA. Aspen Gay Ski Week is the olst annual week-long gay ski event the USA – so you know you'll be good hands throughout.

SKI CHAMPN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M READY TO BE HAPPY’

European Snow Pri is sponsored by Scff and held a world-renowned – and openly gay-iendly – ski rort the French si of the Alps, Tigu.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG VATNS

The Tigu Val Claret transforms self to a thrivg gay village for the week and ss a nvenient few mut’ walk om a vast lagoon – ial to swim and fact the se of the week's crowng jewel event: a giant pool party.

GAY BAR SKI (CY)

Atria has rapidly bee an extremely liberal untry wh gay marriage beg legalized 2019 and the electn of their first openly lbian mister to ernment.

In celebratn of this perhaps, Gay Snow Happeng is rebrandg as Soeln Wter Pri and scrib self as “the peak of diversy” – get ?! Every March the gays scend upon the town of Mammoth Lak up the Sierra mountas California, for the Elevatn Mammoth Gay Ski Week – a five-day high-class skig event. The event is part of the largt seri of gay ski weeks the world – the others beg Utah and Tremblant – and draws over 2,500 participants annually.

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.

46TH ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK EXPANDS ENTERTAMENT AND EVENT OFFERGS

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.

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.

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.

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.