Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week | EGSW | 16-23 March 2024

Contents:

• OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK
• EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK
• THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• GAY SKI WEEKS - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - WTER SPORTS FOM

OUT ON THE PISTE | WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT 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.

Val Thorens is a perfect lotn for 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.

EUROPE'S BIGGT GAY SKI WEEK

The first physil attack on European Gay Ski Week (EGSW) guts rulted swift arrts and charg - and thankfully didn’t e any major harm. 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.

THE ULTIMATE GUI TO GAY SKI WEEKS AROUND THE WORLD

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. (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.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

”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.

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).

THE 10 BT GAY SKIG HOLIDAYS

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. Kev and the team are workg pretty hard at makg the event welg to women, who tradnally haven’t been targeted by big LGBTQ+ events the way gay men are. Registerg somewhere between isky and balls-out wild, each night’s dance blowout is hosted by a different high-profile gay club night om around the world.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

"Each night’s dance blowout is hosted by a different high-profile gay club night om around the world. This is pretty unique, and far harr to create than jt a mass ski trip - or a bangg talent Carmen, a gay rights activist for more than 20 years, puts . ”European Gay Ski Week 2019 tak place L Arcs, France, om March 23-30th.

Head to the European Gay Ski Week webse for further and to book packag and Mellor is a eelance wrer based London. So we have prepared a summary of how to e and jo European Gay Ski Week the way that sus your budget bt. Europe's Biggt Gay Ski Week.

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.

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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.

EUROPEAN GAY SKI WEEK - WTER SPORTS FOM

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. Telluri Gay Ski WeekTelluri, Colorado, USAIf Aspen is the OG of gay ski weeks, then Telluri is the up-and-er. 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. 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?