Scope and Contents From the Series: This series comprises newspaper clippings, catalogs, bibliographies, administrative records, and other materials created and collected by Robert Manners for his company Books Bohemian and his personal interests. Manners' collection of newspaper clippings pertain to a variety of LGBTQ rights issues, AIDS, and LGBTQ arts. This series also includes catalogs from gay and lesbian booksellers and publicity material from LGBTQ advocacy groups. Note that correspondence pertaining to the operation...

Abstract

This collection mainly comprises Robert Manners' correspondence, newspaper clippings, catalogs, bibliographies, administrative records, and other material, 1953-2010. Manners was the owner and operator of the home-based gay and lesbian mail order catalog Books Bohemian (Pasadena, California) from 1977 to 2004.