Friday, March 12, 2010

B.C.'s "Winter Pride" survives Olympic sandwich

"This year, sandwiched in the 13 days between the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, all signs pointed to Canada’s largest and best-attended gay ski week being stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Again. Having survived several changes in ownership and some rocky economic moments in the last few years, the WinterPride phoenix that soared so high in 2009 appeared to be threatened by a new set of serious challenges in 2010," reports Xtra.ca's Sean Horlor. "... estimates that this year’s gay ski week attendance dropped to 1,500 people, down from approximately 2,500 the year before." READ MORE

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