Fonds Sortie. – 1978-1988. – 1.19 m of textual records, photographs, posters and layout mock-ups.
Administrative history:
The tabloid-format newspaper Sortie began publishing in October 1982, with ten issues per year. It was initially published by the not-for-profit company Les publications Sortie Inc. and edited by a collective made up of Christian Bordeleau, Daniel Carrière, Bernard Courte, Francis DeGuire, Kirk Kelly, Jacques Larouche, Serge Petit, Pierre Plouffe, Philip Rappaport, Paul-André Urbain and Carol Viel. Some of the members of this collective had previously worked for the newspaper Le Berdache, published by the ADGQ, and left it to found Sortie. The newspaper’s Montreal office was located on rue Boyer, between rue Rachel and rue Marie-Anne. Sortie was subsequently produced by Cécile Champagne (Sissy), Daniel Carrière, John Banks, Richard Franck, Bernard Courte, Carol Viel and Robert Barzel, and published by Les productions Sissy enr. Issues 31 to 62 will be available in quarter-fold format (20 x 27 cm), with a glossy cover.
Scope and content:
The fonds reflects the lifestyles and activities of the gay and lesbian community in Montreal, Quebec and internationally.
The fonds contains the following series:
Notes:
Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ on 24 February 1987 by Robert Barzel (acquisition 1987-02). Another part was transferred on 22 September 1987 by John Banks (acquisition 1987-06).
Language: The documents are in French and English.
Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described:
The AGQ-F0011 Bernard Courte fonds contains documents relating to the newspaper Sortie in file AGQ-F0011/S3/D6. B. Courte. Articles published in SORTIE written since Toronto. The documents date from September 1986 to October 1988. Another file in this fonds concerns Sortie: AGQ-F0011/S7/D39 B. Courte. Sortie file. The documents possibly date from before April 12, 1983 to before September 6, 1986.
The AGQ-F0013 Projet Action Intégration fonds contains documents relating to the Sortie newspaper in file AGQ-F0013/D39. Action-Intégration. Les Publications Sortie Inc. The documents date from around October 18, 1983 to May 1985.
The AGQ-F0018 Jean-Gilles Godin fonds contains documents relating to the newspaper Sortie.
Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.
Bibliography:
Giguère, N. (2016, Spring). “Les périodiques gais au Québec : évolution et transformations d’une presse au service d’une communauté”. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, 7(2).
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