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Looking forward to some down time this weekend with my man!

GAYTWOGETHER

Outings & Adventures

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.

Daily Loaf

53 Ways to Shed Stress, Live Better

Feeling on edge? Maybe it's your job, your relationships, … Whatever your worry, consider it quashed.

By: Steve Calechman

When Stress Attacks!

(Editor's Note: We're going to keep adding to this list. Bookmark and check back at least once a week)

It's hard to say, exactly, what the worst part about stress is. Is it the tightness that starts somewhere around your solar plexus, then extends out to your toenails, earlobes, and cerebellum? Is it randomly snapping at innocent - and, occasionally, quite guilty - coworkers and loved ones? Is it sobbing quietly behind the closed door of a men's-room stall? (Uh, sorry, did we say that last one out loud?)

The point is, stress attacks in all sorts of ways - which means that if you want to control it, contain it, conquer it, you need to fire back in kind. That's why we've spent the past several months devouring studies and cross-examining experts to find the best stress-busting tips of all time. We won't lie - it was a bear of a job, and there were desperate moments when we thought we actually smelled smoke coming from the old cerebellum (see quiet sobbing in men's room, above). But when we sat down and read the advice we'd compiled - and then started following it - we suddenly felt much, much better. Soon you will, too.

Men's Health