Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week | EGSW | 23-30 March 2024

Contents:

• 10 GAY SKI WEEKS AND WTER PRI CELEBRATNS
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• FD NEW ADVENTUR WH GAY SKI WEEK
• TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF EVENTS – THE SE OF GAY SKI WEEK QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND
• GAY SKI WEEK NZ
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS
• SEARCH RULTS FOR GAY SKI WEEK NEW ZEALAND
• A GAY SKI WEEK WH A KIWI TWIST
• OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK
• GAY SKI WEEK QUEENSTOWN
• GAY SKI WEEKS: COLOR THE SLOP

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. 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

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

FD NEW ADVENTUR WH GAY SKI WEEK

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.

TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF EVENTS – THE SE OF GAY SKI WEEK QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND

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.

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.

GAY SKI WEEK NZ

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.

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS

"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.

SEARCH RULTS FOR GAY SKI WEEK NEW ZEALAND

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. 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.

A GAY SKI WEEK WH A KIWI TWIST

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? 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 .

Fd New Adventur wh Gay Ski WeekFor LGBTIQ+ Lovers (of snow)Home: WeleFor LGBTIQ lovers of the snowThis gui is to help LGBTIQ lovers of skig to know whats on, where and when. Our missn is to make easier to fd the bt gay ski week for you and help promote gay ski weeks wh Atralia and AboutGay Ski WeekA wonrful opportuny for LGBTIQ+ lovers of snow to enjoy the sport wh old and new iends.

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

Gay Ski weeks anise shared acodatn, group lift pass, transport optns, dners, parti and other special ImageFalls Creek Atralia4-13 SeptemberNew ZealandWterpri NZHome: ToursContact UsWe would love to hear your remendatns, feedback and qutns about gay ski weeks Contact.

Prev rearch has explored a relatively narrow reprentatn of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) muny. This paper aims to report on empiril rearch nducted Queenstown, New Zealand, durg the 2016 Gay Ski Week (GSW) and explor the transformative, clive potential of event plac, social atmospher and experienc. This paper explor the need for event managers to revis and adapt to the mographic, motivatnal and behavural characteristics of the morn gay event attene.

In particular, this paper disvers the motivatns of Asian gay atten as a margalised muny wh a tradnal LGBTQ event a tradnal heterosexual statn.

GAY SKI WEEK QUEENSTOWN

Gay Ski Week NZ brgs hundreds of gay men and women to Queenstown, New Zealand for a week-long alpe party filled wh socialisg, drkg, dg, live mic, adventure, snow and general hedonism. 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 SKI WEEKS: COLOR THE SLOP

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.

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.