June 23, 2009 at 6:03 pm by David Warner
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.
The programming is both predictable and surprising: Predictable, because you’d expect there to be a gay male audience for things like a private tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed campus at Florida Southern. Surprising, because even though such outings are appealing, it’s rare to see them offered to gay men in any organized fashion.
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