Every year January, the Gay and Lbian Communy is all about skig, snowboardg, pri and partyg. Your gay ski weekend Aspen.
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ASPEN GAY SKI WEEK
Jo for the 47th Year of the bt Gay Ski Weeks the world! Aspen, CO. Jan 14-21, 2024. Wh our host hotel the Limelight Aspen. * aspen gay ski week 2024 *
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. Aspen Gay Ski Week. Aspen Gay Ski Week (AGSW) is the olst annual, week-long gay ski event the natn.
A mol for other gay ski weeks, AGSW offers a unique vatn experience the scenic and historic mounta town of Aspen, Colorado. Aspen Gay Ski Week is also the annual fundraisg event for AspenOUT, a lol non-prof and 501C3 anizatn foced on anti-bullyg and tolerance.
ASPEN - GAY SKI WEEK 2024
Aspen Gay Ski Week, the longt nng annual gay ski week the natn, returns on January 16-23. Learn more about events and . * aspen gay ski week 2024 *
Forty-seven years ago, what beme Aspen Gay Ski Week began a bar over an argument about dancg and liberal polics Aspen; who’d have thought? A group of lol guys, Jon Bch, David Hoch, Tom Duterberg, Rsell Anrson, and others, along wh groups of gay tourists om var ski clubs (San Diego, Los Angel, and Chigo) cid to meet more officially every January to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Communy. But over the years, the all-volunteer “let’s put on a show” effort beme the world’s first and for many years only, gay ski week.
But at s roots Aspen Gay Ski Week is also about polics, pri, and civil rights. Beg only a few years after Stonewall, gay rights hadn’t ma much of an road to ral Colorado—even liberal Aspen.
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But 1979 Bch and other lol guys phed for and eventually secured gay rights protectns Aspen—a first the state. This nstutnal amendment revoked and repealed all existg gay rights legislatn such as Aspen’s and prevented any further gay rights legislatn om beg passed eher at the lol or state level. There was liberal outrage across Colorado and the Uned Stat to this effort to ny gays basic civil rights and liberti.
The rponse om Hollywood and the natnal and ternatnal gay muny was a boytt of Colorado tourism.
It was a very effective boytt and had a vastatg effect on tourism general (as many boytts do—that’s the pot) but also hurt Aspen Gay Ski week particular. Gay statn tourism had grown out of the awarens that many gays had a lot of disposable e and that there uld be succsful mols like Aspen Gay Ski Week other ski rorts. As the for-prof ski weeks beme more prevalent and statn tourism was better marketed to the gay traveler and skier, visors began to expect more but participate ls the planng and executn of the experience.