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Contents:

• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• EUROPE’S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK TAK PLACE THE GAY IENDLY SKI RORT OF TIGN
• GAY PRI SKI CLOTHG
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY PRI SKI POSTERS
• GAY PRI SKI STICKERS
• EUROPEAN SNOW PRI 2022, TIGN, EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK
• GAY SAILG HOLIDAYS

10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS

Gay ski weeks and wter Pri events ually offer guts a variety of fun parti to socialize wh other lols, meet people om different rners of the world, and an opportuny to get outdoors and enjoy skig, snowboardg, and other wter activi. So, we pulled together a list of 10 domtic and ternatnal gay ski weeks or wter Pri celebratns that you should nsir attendg when you feel fortable travelg. Aspen Gay Ski Week 2020 Colorado (Photo Cred: Aspen Gay Ski Week).

Aspen Gay Ski Week, Jan.

16-23, 2022 (Aspen, Colorado, USA)Returng for s 45th year, Aspen Gay Ski Week is touted as the largt and longt-nng gay ski event the Wtern Hemisphere. Produced by lol non-prof AspenOUT, Aspen Gay Ski Week will be jam-packed wh fundraisg events, such as drag bgo, a downhill stume petn, a wboy rave, and a pool party. Start this fun ski week wh a bonfire cktail receptn wh an optn of fun parti, such as a “wet ‘n wild” pool bash, karaoke and drag bgo fundraisers, a firi we and chee party, a show wh edian Shaw Pelofsky, and a fal “Blow Out Dance Party” to p off this fun Gay Ski Week.

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

Arosa Gay Ski Week, January 22-29, 2022 (Arosa, Swzerland)LGBTQ+ travelers will feel weled Arosa, Swzerland. It’s one of the most gay-iendly ski areas the Alps, and not unmon to see rabow flags flyg high throughout the wter. Jo more than 600 lbian and gay wter sports fans om over 30 different untri and fd out why Arosa Gay Ski Week is “Europe’s favore Queer Ski Pri Week.

Sce 1992 women, men, and everyone between g together at Ski Whistler Blackb to enjoy gay-iendly Wter sports.

Elevatn Utah Gay Ski Week Park Cy (Photo Cred: EUSW). Elevatn Utah Gay Ski Week, Febary 23-27, 2022 (Park Cy, Utah, USA)Before COVID, Elevatn Utah weled a rerd number of queer skiers and alli to take on the powry slop of Park Cy and Deer Valley. 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.

EUROPE’S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK TAK PLACE THE GAY IENDLY SKI RORT OF TIGN

Telluri Gay Ski Week, Febary 26-March 5, 2022 (Telluri, Colorado, USA)Wter sports pros nverge on Telluri bee of s 147 ns and a 4, 500-foot vertil drop.

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And more than 1, 000 revelers of all backgrounds e each year to celebrate Telluri Gay Ski Week. European Snow Pri, March 12-19, 2022 (Espace Killy, France)The French Alps are the stage for two Gay Snow Weeks Sprg.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

You n extend your wter gay vay France and head a one-hour drive north to experience the European Gay Ski Week L Arcs. Elevatn Mammoth Gay Ski Week, March 15-20, 2022 (Mammoth Lak, California, USA)Found by Tom Whman, the now-ternatnal Elevatn brand is celebratg 20 years sce s gural Elevatn Mammoth Gay Ski Week Mammoth Lak.

Gay Ski Week QT, Aug. It’s also the perfect time for Gay Ski Week QT, the largt gay & lbian Wter Pri the Southern Hemisphere.

Pri month was created 1999 by Print Bill Clton to regnize the gay and lbian muny and has sce been expand to clu the bisexual and transgenr muny. In 1982, a plete ban of gays the ary was set place and unr nearly 17, 000 men and women were discharged the next .

GAY PRI SKI POSTERS

The plete ban was then replaced by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1993, a policy prohibg service while openly gay.

GAY PRI SKI STICKERS

How the Whistler Pri & Ski Ftival has celebrated gay pri for the last three s and bee the largt event of s kd.

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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 LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. What is Gay Pri or LGBTQ+ Pri?

Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni. A Brief History of Gay Pri.

In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village.

This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement. As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival.

Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event. Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg. We have published this lendar to rm the LGBTQ+ muny of important gay pri events and paras globally to offer a plete source for planng your travel.

We provi ee rourc and rmatn for LGBTQ+ travelers cludg this list of global gay pri events. 2023 & 2024 Internatnal Gay Pri Events.

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).