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Outings & Adventures: Gay life beyond the bars

Posted by David Warner on Jun. 23, 2009, at 6:03 pm

Outings & Adventures' Robert Geller with Vienna, the late great mascot of his businesses Bourbon Street Boxers and what2wear.

Outings & Adventures' Robert Geller with Vienna.

It’s Pride Week, and that means a lot of gay folks will be out at the bars. Modern gay history arguably began 40 years ago at a bar (NYC’s Stonewall Inn), and for a long time a tavern was the only public place where gay men and lesbians could meet discreetly and in relative safety.

But with so many of us living openly, a bar is no longer the only option for socializing (especially since the Internet has taken over in the hook-up department). That’s where Robert Geller comes in. Geller is profiled in Creative Loafing’s Gay Issue this week: An ebullient entrepreneur who first made his mark in the Tampa Bay area with Bourbon Street Boxers, a boxer-shorts boutique, he’s now running Outings & Adventures. It’s a smartly designed service for gay men that could be described as everything but the bars. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Florida Southern College, Frank Lloyd Wright, gay bars, gay men, Grillsmith, L'Olivier's, Outings & Adventures, Robert Geller, Stageworks Theatre, The Little Dog Laughed
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, LGBT |



Watching the game where the crowds weren’t

Posted by David Warner on Feb. 2, 2009, at 3:07 pm

Brian Ries recommended some sports-bar alternatives where the crowds wouldn’t be on Game Day, and he was right about the attendance. At the start of a Super Bowl that would turn out to be one of the best ever, Ybor City (hung over from the night before, perhaps) was very quiet. But if nothing much was happening yet in the bars themselves, the denizens of the bars were happy to talk to Creative Loafing’s camera.

Alton Isings of L’Olivier’s Restaurant (and Miami Modern) asks a key question:

More videos after the jump:

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Tags: Creative-Loafing, Hyde Park Village, L'Olivier's, Spurs, Streetcar Charlie's, Super Bowl, watching the game, Ybor City
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Super Bowl |

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