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I think most of the people on this thread missed the point of the article. The point was not if there should be a "gay" week. This is a private business and can do what they want. The point was this: A person placed on his website information that the gay week was going to be held and that families that didn't want to expose their children to the event, could make plans to go elsewhere. The ski resort got up in arms over this because they could see money flying away from straight people not showing up that week. This is a chance you take when you put on special events for certain people.

What I am trying to say is this: Did the website have the right to publish the gay week and let people know? Yes, they did. Do straights have the right to know what is going on in the way of special events such as a gay week that they feel might expose their children to a life style they don't necessarily agree with ? IMO yes, they do.

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

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.