Europe's biggt gay ski week | European Snow Pri | 16-23 Mar.

Contents:

• OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK 2019
• GLOBAL GAY SKI WEEK GUI FOR 2019

OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK

As the mountatops above the French rort of L Menuir blh peach the settg sun, European Gay Ski Week 2018’s daily après-ski ssn on the large terrace of Tex Mex pizzeria hs s stri.

“There’s more to the event than jt pornstar-bodied boys prerly overload unrcrackers”For the first time s ten-year history, the nomadic Alpe sports and social ftival had suffered homophobic aggrsn - not once, but twice. The first physil attack on European Gay Ski Week (EGSW) guts rulted swift arrts and charg - and thankfully didn’t e any major harm.

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

We will not stand for homophobia any form, and will ntue to show the small-md they will not w, by celebratg our diversy and stayg visible. Gay men and women hug iends and lovers old and new.

Straight lols hug gay guts, then hug each other.

A veteran of four gay ski weeks (Aspen’s twice and Telluri’s, both Colorado, and a sadly now funct event Åre, Swen) and half a lifetime of Pri celebratns, I’ve never seen such a diverse crowd mixg wh such ease and warmth.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK 2019

(I disver later that Cha, Azerbaijan and the Bahamas are also among the 43 untri reprented here, among 750-pl EGSW guts) European Gay Ski Week 2018, there were 43 different natnali among the 750 guts. Although I live London now, I’m om Poland, and gay people Central and Eastern Europe are mostly ma to feel like third-class cizens, stuff like this is not unual.

”Wh global LGBTQ+ travel now valued at more than $218 billn a year, the gay ski week format is an tablished staple of pk wter.

Mills’ bodac creds clu -nng the inic London gay club Heaven for 15 of s most succsful years, beg the UK’s most succsful rave producer for a good chunk of the acid hoe era and legendarily crowng 1985’s London Gay Pri by sendg Dive down the Tham sgg live on top of a paddle steamer.

GLOBAL GAY SKI WEEK GUI FOR 2019

And European Gay Ski Week was a quick sot around and you uld be fiven for thkg that, skig and snowboardg asi, the event is all panto-mp drag, boozy dance parti and pornstar-bodied boys prerly overload unrcrackers. The are the standard, if overworked, marketg trop for LGBTQ+ entertament’s hight-spendg dience sector: gay men. “It do all look a b generic Eurogay on the surface, don’t ?, ” says Manchter-based alternative drag artist Cheddar Geo (aka Michael Atks PhD).

Photo: EGSW“It do all look a b generic Eurogay on the surface, don’t ?, ” says Manchter-based alternative drag artist Cheddar Geo (aka Michael Atks PhD), who has performed at the event for the last four years. ”“There have got to be more ways for gay people to fd muny than dancg around jockstraps shovg dildos up each other, haven’t there ar?

That self readjts the way people who may never have enuntered a gay person see . But there have got to be more ways for gay people to fd muny than dancg around jockstraps shovg dildos up each other, haven’t there ar? I joed him ‘Gays on Trays’ (a chey ‘90s skier-to-snowboarr sult repurposed as team moniker by the fastt of EGSW’s snowboardg groups) to spank pretty much all of the 3 Valleys’ 600km of pist, pl a fair few of the broarcross urs and snow parks, over the urse of the week.