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DOWNTOWN — Local jewelers, mortgage companies, chiropractors and other businesses will set up displays and booths downtown on Sunday to attract gay and lesbian customers.
The Tampa Bay Business Guild, a 20-year-old chamber of commerce for gay and gay-friendly businesses in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties, is holding its annual Business Expo from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the TECO Atrium (across from Tampa Theatre) at 702 N Franklin St.
The event will feature corporate sponsors and vendors as large as Macy's, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Nielsen Media and as small as St. Petersburg bar Georgie's Alibi and the nonprofit Francis House.
The expo will run in conjunction with the opening weekend of the Clip Film Festival, a Tampa-based international gay and lesbian film event. Guild event coordinator Cory Jeffries hopes that will increase the expo's draw.
The expo has taken place for several years and increased over time, Jeffries said. He hopes it will attract 2,000 to 2,500 people.
"The expo has gone through a kind of roller-coaster effect, up and down over the years," he said. "This year we're fighting the struggling financial economy, so I'm promoting it anyplace I possibly can."
The guild is hosting an outdoor art festival to go along with the expo for the first time. Various artists will sell jewelry, photography and other artwork.
"It's not going to be on scale of Gasparilla or Hyde Park (art festivals)," Jeffries said, "but we're hoping we can grow into something like that."
[Last modified: Oct 02, 2008 04:31 AM]
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