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== Background ==
== Background ==
Subtitled "Sex in Perspective". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_(American_magazine) Wikipedia article]
Subtitled "Sex in Perspective". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_(American_magazine) Wikipedia article]
drum, subtitled “sex in perspective”, began as the newsletter of Philadelphia’s Janus Society. Clark Polak, a brash homophile leader in the mid-Sixties, appropriated editorship of the newsletter, telling Rodger Streitmatter that he “began drum Magazine as a consistently articulate, well-edited, amusing and informative publication. I envisioned a sort of sophisticated, but down-to-earth, magazine for people who dug gay life and drum’s view of the world.”


== Typography ==
== Typography ==

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Background

Subtitled "Sex in Perspective". Wikipedia article

drum, subtitled “sex in perspective”, began as the newsletter of Philadelphia’s Janus Society. Clark Polak, a brash homophile leader in the mid-Sixties, appropriated editorship of the newsletter, telling Rodger Streitmatter that he “began drum Magazine as a consistently articulate, well-edited, amusing and informative publication. I envisioned a sort of sophisticated, but down-to-earth, magazine for people who dug gay life and drum’s view of the world.”

Typography

Cover typefaces

Interior typefaces

Collected issues

Drum, vol. 4 no. 9, 1964
  1. Drum, vol. 4 no. 9 (November 1964)
  2. Drum, vol. 5 no. 10 (December 1965)
  3. Drum, vol. 6 no. 2 (April 1966)
  4. Drum 18–19 (1966)
  5. Drum 20 (1966)
  6. Drum 21 (1966)
  7. Drum 22 (December 1966)
  8. Drum 24 (March 1967)
  9. Drum 26 (September 1967)
  10. Drum 30 (December 1968)