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Title: Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash
papers
Dates: 1731-2001.
Bulk Dates: 1975-1987.
Collection number: Coll2008-011
Creator:
Lombardi, Michael A., 1947-
Creator:
Nash, Paul J., 1934-
Collection Size: 13 records boxes + 5 archive
cartons + 4 archive half-cartons + 1 archive shoebox + 3 oversize
boxes. 20 linear feet.
Repository:
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90007
Abstract: Writings, publications, correspondence,
photocopies, manuscripts, notes, photographs, programs, ephemera, and other
material documenting the lives and intellectual interests of partners and gay
rights activists Michael Lombardi and Paul Nash. The materials relate in
particular to their mutual interest in pioneer German gay activist Karl
Heinrich Ulrichs, whose works Lombardi has translated. The collection also
documents Nash's work as a newspaper journalist and editor, first at the
Los Angles Collegian and later at the gay
newspaper
Update. Subject and chronological files
demonstrate the range of their interests and their involvement in the GLBT
community in Southern California and its struggle for legal and social
recognition.
Languages: Languages represented
in the collection: English
German French Italian
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access
restrictions.
Researchers wishing to publish materials must obtain permission in
writing from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives as the physical owner.
Researchers must also obtain clearance from the holder(s) of any copyrights in
the materials. Note that ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives can grant
copyright clearance only for those materials for which we hold the copyright.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for
all other materials directly from the copyright holder(s).
Box #, folder #, Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash papers,
Coll2008-011, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles,
California.
Gift of Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash, 1998.
Formerly boxes 103-88, 103-166, 103-167, 103-171 through 103-178,
104-125, and 104-129. Collection processed by Michael P. Palmer,
October-December, 2008.
Processing this collection has been funded
by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
Michael Anthony Lombardi was born in Hawick, Scotland, on August 11,
1947, the son of Antonio and Clementina (Morelli) Lombardi. He was raised in an
Italian colony in Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States with his
family in 1959. He received his primary and secondary education in Catholic and
public schools in Lynwood, California. He interrupted his high school studies
in Los Angeles and joined the U.S. Army in 1966, where he received his high
school equivalency diploma. After completing his tour of duty, he received his
A.A. degree from Compton Junior College, and entered the University of
California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated with a B.A. in German in
1973. He then entered the UCLA graduate program in German, spending his second
year of graduate study at the Gesamthochschule Essen. He became a candidate for
the M.A. in 1977, but did not take the degree. In 1983, he resumed graduate
study at the ONE Institute for Homophile Studies Graduate School, earning an
M.A. and Ph.D. in Homophile Studies in 1984 and 1986, respectively.
Lombardi first became acquainted with the writings of Karl Heinrich
Ulrichs (1825-1895), the pioneering German theorist and activist for the legal
and social rights of homosexuals, in 1977. From 1979 onwards he translated
Ulrichs' works, which he and Paul Nash, his partner since 1972, published
privately as "Urania Manuscripts". In 1990, he was approached by Vern Bullough,
general editor of Prometheus Books' series on human sexuality, to translate the
works of Magnus Hirschfeld. His translation of Hirschfeld's
Die Transvestiten (1910) appeared in 1991,
and of Hirschfeld's
Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes
(1914) in 2000. He has also published a translation of Ernest Borneman's
Das Geschlechtsleben des Kindes (1985).
Paul Nash was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on February 20, 1934.
After graduating from highschool, he spent two years in the U.S. Navy, after
which he attended college. In 1962, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was
employed in hospital administration and where he met Michael Lombardi, who
became his partner in 1972. During the 1970s Nash and Lombardi became
increasingly active in civil and gay rights. In 1975, Nash entered Los Angeles
City College to study writing, and became involved in newspaper journalism. He
served as Executive Editor of the
Los Angeles Collegian in 1978. From 1980 to
1983 he was also Los Angeles City Editor of
Update, a gay newspaper serving San Diego
and Los Angeles. He was editor and principal financial supporter of "Urania
Manuscripts", which he and Lombardi founded to privately publish the latter's
translations of the works of Ulrichs and other European writers on
homosexuality. The couple also runs the Karl Heinrich Ulrichs website at
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/celebration2000/ , which
serves as a clearing house for current information on the study of Ulrichs and
his contribution to the GLBT movement.
In 1988, Michael Lombardi and Paul Nash moved from Los Angeles to
Jacksonville, Florida, where they currently reside.
Sources:
Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash Papers, Coll2008-011, ONE National
Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Website,
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/celebration2000/
(accessed December 6, 2008).
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of writings, publications, correspondence,
photocopies, manuscripts, notes, photographs, programs, ephemera, and other
material documenting the lives and intellectual interests of partners and gay
rights activists Michael Lombardi and Paul Nash. The materials relate in
particular to their mutual interest in pioneer German gay activist Karl
Heinrich Ulrichs, whose works Lombardi has translated. The collection also
documents Nash's work as a newspaper journalist and editor, first at the
Los Angles Collegian and later at the gay
newspaper
Update. Subject and chronological files
demonstrate the range of their interests and their involvement in the GLBT
community in Southern California and its struggle for legal and social
recognition. The collection is arranged in eight series: (1) Michael A.
Lombardi, (2) Paul J. Nash, (3) Karl Heinrich Ulrichs website, (4) Subject and
Chronological Files, (5) Publications, (6) Photographs, (7) Audio, and (8)
Ephemera and Memorabilia.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Biography
Gay rights--Germany
Gay rights--United States
Gays--Biography
Hermann-Pintus, Lore
Hirschfeld, Magnus,
1868-1935
Homosexuality--Germany--History
Homosexuality--Netherlands--History
Homosexuality--Political
aspects--California--Los Angeles
Homosexuality--Social
aspects--California--Los Angeles
Jews--Persecutions
Journalism
Pintus, Liesel
Reporters and reporting
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich,
1825-1895
Update, issues 48-75 (January 9,
1981-January 29, 1982), and
The West Hollywood Paper, vol. 1, no. 12
(November 7-14, 1985), removed to ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Periodicals Collection, December 1, 2008.