Gay Ski Week stirs dispute in Telluride

I think most of the people on this thread missed the point of the article.

I think Mineralman was referring to my link to the "Testicle Festival" as "borderline porn" not gay week at Teluride...though there could be an argument made in both instances.

This is all the article is about, not if you like gays, don't like them, but about freedom of speech and choice.

Which releases us from the restraint of not commenting on it even though we missed the point...[heh]

Nicely said. What might not bother some can be a real crisis for others. I know if I had young kids I would not was them subjected to "The Blue Ball" relay, or whatever else they had planned. I lived in Greenwich Village for years. I have gay friends and relatives. However much gays try to paint the picture that they are just like you and me, but they like guys (or girls), they DO behave differently when they feel like they can get away with it (like in the Village, where their numbers give them comfort, or at a gay-themed vacation). Don't believe me? Visit Key West sometime, or Mardi Gras. Not all of them, some are the exact opposite (the best behaved persons in many crowds are often the gay ones)but enough for it to be a problem. If you don't think some freak showed up to ski in assless chaps, you're kidding yourself.

In my opinion, it's not enough for the resort to post an announcement on the website. They should also personally notify potential customers. They could do it in a nice way ("Oh, it says here that that week is 'Gay Week', not that there's anything wrong with that."). Of course, this will never happen. I know that I would be royally pissed of to pay the money, take the time off from work, and travel across the country only to have this sprung on me.

"Anybody has a right to informatively let folks know what's going to be going on in a small town."

They'd better think hard about not hiding it.

How else would the parents of small children know when to hide their little boys? Perhaps decent people may not want to unwittingly show up for a very expensive and delightful ski vacation - only to be scandalized by the antics of the sodomite "community"?

It is only respectful for Telluride not to conceal from their normal customers this major group of perverts is showing up. They should know what is in store for them and be able to make alternative plans if they wanted.

Unfortunately, Telluride has chosen to hide the facts as if these are "normal" people showing up by the bus loads. it is most likely they will ultimately proceed to scandalize everybody possessing a sense of decency.

It will serve Telluride right if the town goes broke and they get the reputation of being Helluride.

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