Clark Philip Polak was an American

United States

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 journalist and gay rights activist. He was known for creating and editing DRUM

Drum (American magazine)

Drum was an American LGBT-interest magazine based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Published monthly beginning in 1964 by the homophile activist group the Janus Society and edited by Clark Polak, Drum took its title from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "If a man does not keep pace with his...

magazine (1964-1967), an early gay-interest periodical, and for his leadership role with the Philadelphia-based homophile

Homophile

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 organization, the Janus Society

Janus Society

The Janus Society was an early homophile organization based in Philadelphia. It is notable as the publisher of DRUM magazine, one of the earliest LGBT-interest publications in the United States, and for its role in organizing many of the nation's earliest LGBT rights demonstrations.-Drum:Drum was...

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Polak killed himself in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 1980.

Clark was the youngest son of Arthur Marcus Polak and Ann Polak and the brother of Marcus Arthur Polak and Roberta Esther Polak Weber/Shilling. He lived in a home that overlooked Hollywood with his friends and had two St. Bernard

St. Bernard

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s named Bert and Ernie. He was a loving uncle.

See also

• H. Lynn Womack
  H. Lynn Womack
  Dr. H. Lynn Womack was the founder of Guild Press , a publishing house that catered almost exclusively to a gay male audience and played a major role in expanding the legal protections for gay publications against obscenity laws in the United States.- Biography :Born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi...
  
  
• List of gay pornographic magazines
• Beefcake magazine