Happy Anniversary to SarasotaOUT.com!

​By Joshua Beadle

​

---

​On December 1st, SarasotaOUT.com quietly celebrated 2 years of serving Sarasota's LGBT community. Over the past 2 years, we've had over 240,000 views on the website. Let's take a minute to really reflect on those numbers. It's truly astonishing a little website created in a living room as a passion project. This number shows that people are getting SarasotaOUT.com's mission "To provide a central location to bring ALL of Sarasota's LGBT community together and to build a better, stronger more active community." Locals are using the website to find out new events happening around town and to find the businesses that are LGBT Friendly so they can support them. This also means that tourists are using the website to find out what LGBT Sarasota has to offer while on their vacation.

I could not be more happy with the last 2 years and am excited to announce that I'm dedicating my time to SarasotaOUT.com and Sarasota's LGBT community FULL TIME! Yes, that means I'm putting my faith into the community to understand the importance of a website like SarasotaOUT.com and its impact on our entire community. I will be working hard at creating content, doing stories on the LGBT community, listing events and helping businesses get the most out of the online directory. SarasotaOUT.com runs on advertising/sponsorships - so If your business would like to sponsor us please message me ( [email protected] ), together we will work on a campaign that will not only shine but will let the community know you support them.