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Title: Out/Look Foundation records
Dates: 1987-1992
Collection Number: 1992-11
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 23.5 linear feet (17 cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 1 oversized box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Out/Look: National Lesbian & Gay Quarterly was a groundbreaking queer magazine published between 1987 and 1992; the magazine’s
staff also organized the annual OutWrite Conferences, held between 1990 and 1992. The collection contains organizational records,
correspondence, board materials and meeting minutes, financial records, grant materials, circulation information, personnel
records, publicity files, editorial content, production files, writings, artists’ files, conference materials and audiotapes,
subject files, newsclippings, and photographs.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Out/Look Foundation records. Collection Number: 1992-11. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Mimi Klausner. Deed of Gift signed January 1997. Gift of E.G. Crichton, May 2018 and October 2023.
Biography/Administrative History
Out/Look: National Lesbian & Gay Quarterly was a groundbreaking queer magazine published between 1987 and 1992; the magazine’s
staff also organized the annual OutWrite Conferences, held between 1990 and 1992. The magazine was notable for broadly inclusive
subject matter and for bridging the gap between academic and creative writing.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains organizational records, correspondence, board materials and meeting minutes, financial records, grant
materials, circulation information, personnel records, publicity files, editorial content, production files, writings, artists’
files, conference materials and audiotapes, subject files, newsclippings, and photographs. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008497;
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381
Literature
Journalism
Gay men
Lesbians