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The Forum Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-039

Scope and Content

Publication information, article typescripts, correspondence, advertising information, layout graphics, and clippings pertaining to The Forum, a bi-weekly publication directed to Southern California's gay and lesbian community, limited to two issues in 1974. The bulk of the collection consists of articles written by contributors, including several articles by news editor Doug Sarff, who had previously been a reporter for The Advocate.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1974-1981

Creator

Access

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Publication Rights

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Historical Note

The Forum was a bi-weekly newsmagazine of Southern California's gay and lesbian community. "The Forum is frankly designed to report primarily on news of the gay community, because we feel this minority group is making news which is not being adequately reported elsewhere, and because it constitutes a market of growing economic importance." The Forum's other declared purpose was to build a readership described as "concerned, liberal, and young in spirit, without regard to sex or sexual orientation." The Forum published only two issues in 1974.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet ([1 folder])

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Publication information, article typescripts, correspondence, advertising information, layout graphics, and clippings pertaining to The Forum, a bi-weekly newsmagazine directed to Southern California's gay and lesbian community. Only two issues of The Forum were published, 1974.

Processing Information

Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In order to provide access to this collection, minimal processing on this collection was expedited in 2011. Date spans were given wherever possible, but do not reflect the most accurate inclusive dates.

Title
The Forum Collection, circa 1974-1981
Status
Publish Basic
Author
Marc LaRocque
Date
(c) 2011
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is inEnglish.

Repository Details

Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository

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