The Ultimate Gui to Gay Ski Weeks Around the World, From Aspen to New Zealand | Condé Nast Traveler

Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS
• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK (EGSW) - A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK, L ARCS
• EUROPEAN SNOW PRI 2022, TIGN, EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK 2023

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

Val Thorens is a perfect lotn for European Gay Ski Week. Europe's biggt gay ski week, European Snow Pri TignContact UsEuropean Snow Pri Powered by SCRUFF is the biggt gay ski week Europe. Our gay ski ftival tak place om March 16 to 23, 2024 the gay iendly ski rort of Tign.

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. 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.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS

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.

If you're a rear of our blog then you know we love gay pris, LGBT+ parti & events and wter sports. So what better way to celebrate than to attend a gay ski week – our absolute favore wter activy!

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.

10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS

European Gay Ski Week is s 14th year and tak place the French Alps brgg crowds om across Europe.

Durg the daytime, there is an exclive European Gay Ski Week ski school and also guid groups that you n jo. Then for lunch, you n meet other European Gay Ski Week guts at their signated lunchtime rtrants. Canada is known as a very gay-iendly statn.

Gay Ski Weekend Queenstown (New Zealand). Queenstown Wter Pri is the largt and perhaps the only major gay ski event south of the equator.

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

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.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK, L ARCS

The event creat a welg atmosphere for all LGBT+ people and alli the gay-iendly village of Arosa, Swzerland. If there’s one thg Arosa Gay Ski Week do well ’s entertament.

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.

Whistler Pri and Ski Ftival is another big gay ski week the LGBTQ+ iendly untry of Canada. 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.

EUROPEAN SNOW PRI 2022, TIGN, EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK

Come March the biggt gay ski weekend all of Europe tak place.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK 2023

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 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. 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 ?! Image Cred: Elevatn Mammoth Gay Ski Week.

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 goal: to nquer Mammoth Mounta for the gays! 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.

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.

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. 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.