Aspen gay ski week costume contest

Our downhill costume competition will be judged by a roster of personalities, including and hosted by Gay Ski Week legend Mariam T. You won’t want to miss the mayhem! Bring your favorite noise makers, clack fans, and colorful outfits as you watch the spirited competition in the snow at Gondola Plaza. It is the queerest, wildest, most loving, most accepting, most colorful week of the ski season: it is Aspen Gay Ski Week. Each January is a Pride celebration unlike any other. Aspen, Colorado gets decked out in rainbow flags while drag queens host everything from Drag Queen Bingo Brunch to the Downhill Costume Contest.

Aspen Gay Ski Week reached its peak on Friday with the annual Downhill Costume Contest from the base of Aspen Mountain. A dominant force from year to year, Snowmass Tourism beat the Aspen Chamber Resort Association in a dance-off after they initially tied. The crowd proved to have the final vote. Photos by Austin Colbert for The Aspen Times. News Jan 18, Aspen Gay Ski Week reached its peak on Friday with the annual Downhill Costume Contest from the base of Aspen Mountain. A dominant force from year to year, Snowmass Tourism beat the Aspen Chamber Resort Association in a dance-off after they initially tied.

Participants of ’s Aspen Gay Ski Week descend Aspen Mountain with a giant pride flag toward Gondola Plaza during the Downhill Costume Contest. Arguably the biggest party of the winter season, Aspen Gay Ski Week has matured. During the decade, a group of local men had started regularly hanging out with gay visitors from ski clubs around the country. By , the reunions became more official, with each club hosting parties in their condos on different nights for a week in January, and the local contingent throwing the welcome party.

A pride flag is carried down the mountain during the downhill costume contest as part of Aspen Gay Ski Week on Friday, Jan. 19, , at the base of Aspen Mountain. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in this year’s edition of the Winter in Aspen/Snowmass magazine. This event, recognized for its significance in promoting diversity and inclusion, takes place in Aspen every January. Aspen Gay Ski Week was founded in Over the years, it has evolved to become one of the most prominent gay ski weeks in the United States.

Our downhill costume competition will be judged by a roster of personalities, including and hosted by Gay Ski Week legend Mariam T. You won’t want to miss the mayhem! Bring your favorite noise makers, clack fans, and colorful outfits as you watch the spirited competition in the snow at Gondola Plaza. News Jan 10, What began as an argument over two men dancing with one another in a local Aspen bar circa has morphed into Aspen Gay Ski Week ASGW. And its 48 th year is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with an estimated 5, attendees expected to descend upon the Roaring Fork Valley between Jan.

Participants of ’s Aspen Gay Ski Week descend Aspen Mountain with a giant pride flag toward Gondola Plaza during the Downhill Costume Contest. .