The phrase "are forums for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a platform or medium where discussions or exchanges on specific topics take place.
Example: "Online communities are forums for sharing ideas and experiences among like-minded individuals."
Alternatives: "serve as platforms for" or "act as venues for".
In the best of circumstances, these community courts are forums for resolving local disputes by consensus using age-old customs.
For the time being, Fox and the radio show are forums for Mr. Rivera to talk about the possibility of running, thereby drumming up attention and potential supporters.
"We have a password-protected website where all your lectures are uploaded immediately and there are forums for discussions with other students so you can debate and get any questions answered," she says.
Facebook groups named "Mario Balotelli – Loved for being a clown" and "I hate Man City, but love Mario Balotelli" are forums for rival supporters to mock Super Mario (even his nickname is inspired by a cartoon video game character).
The government has also started trying to block e-mailed news reports from the Voice of America, and popular chat rooms, some of which are forums for lively debate on current affairs, must maintain a full-time monitor who can filter out postings that enter vaguely defined forbidden zones.
There are forums for discussion of projects.
Record stores have long been forums for like-minded people.
IN THE 1980s most American talk shows were forums for polite conversation.
"Museums and universities are similar in being forums for open exchanges of ideas," she said.
OVER the last two weeks, classrooms throughout the Island have been forums for students to express their emotions about the World Trade Center disaster.
Some wondered why equivalent groups for men only were not established, while others suspected that these discussions were forums for male-bashing.
