Biography
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Separated Material, 2013
Separated Material, 2008
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash papers
creator:
Lombardi, Michael A.
creator:
Nash, Paul J. (Paul Jerome)
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2008.011
Physical Description:
24.75 Linear Feet
17 records boxes + 5 archive cartons + 4 archive half-cartons + 1 archive shoebox + 3 oversize boxes.
Date (inclusive): 1731-2008
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.
Biography
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).
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Acquisition Information
Gifts of Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash, 1998 and 2012.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash papers, Coll2008-011, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Processing Information
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.
Four boxes processed by Charlie Kaufhold and Kyle Morgan were integrated into the collection on June 2013. Processing this
accretion was funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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.
Separated Material, 2013
VHS separated to the ONE audiovisual collection:
1993 and 2000 March on Washington
After Stonewall, 1999
The Birdcage. 1996
In & Out, 1997
Paragraph 175, 2000
Periodicals separated to the ONE periodical collection:
Gays on the Hill, v.3, no.2 (November-December 1978)
It's Time, newsletter of the National Gay Task Force, v.5, no.10 (December 1978)
Latinos Unidos (August and Semptember 1977)
The Lesbian News, no.42 (January 1979)
The L.O.V.E.R. Home Companion, v.2, no.5 (1978)
Deaccessioned
Unannotated visitor guides and maps for Abruzzo, Italy; L'Aquila, Italy; and Minden, Germany.
Separated Material, 2008
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.
anon. n.d. Die Bibel oder die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Cleveland: Central Publishing House.
anon. n.d. Holy Bible with Helps. Revised Standard Version. Nelson.
Baker's pocket Bible concordance. 1974. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book House.
Bell, Robert R., and Michael Gordon. 1972. The social dimension of human sexuality. Boston: Little, Brown.
Bollé, Michael. 1984. Eldorado: homosexuelle Frauen u. Männer in Berlin 1850 - 1950; Geschichte, Alltag u. Kultur; [Ausstellung
im Berlin-Museum, 26. Mai - 8. Juli 1984]. Berlin: Frölich und Kaufmann.
Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality: gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of
the Christian era to the fourteenth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bullough, Bonnie, Vern L. Bullough, and James Elias. 1997. Gender blending. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. 1954 (1941). A catechism of Christian doctrine. No. 2. Paterson: St. Anthony Guild Press.
Dannecker, Martin. 1981. Theories of homosexuality. London: Gay Men's Press.
Dynes, Wayne R. 1987. Homosexuality: a research guide. New York: Garland Pub.
Jellonnek, Burkhard. 1990. Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz: die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich. Paderborn:
F. Schöningh.
LeVay, Simon. 1996. Queer science the use and abuse of research into homosexuality. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Los Angeles City College. 1980. Citadel. Volume 21. Los Angeles: Los Angeles City College.
Order of St. Benedict (ed.). 1960 (1959). Our Parish prays and sings. Dialog Mass, Hymns, Chants. Collegeville: The liturgical
press.
Robb, Graham. 2004. Strangers: homosexual love in the nineteenth century. New York: W.W. Norton.
Williams, Walter L. 1986. The spirit and the flesh: sexual diversity in American Indian culture. Boston: Beacon Press.
Whitman, Walt. 1926. Leaves of grass. Garden City: Doubleday & Company.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Biography
Gay rights -- Germany
Gay rights -- United States
Gays -- Biography
Homosexuality -- Germany -- History
Homosexuality -- Netherlands -- History
Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- California -- Los Angeles
Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles
Jews -- Persecutions
Journalism
Lombardi, Michael A.
Hirschfeld, Magnus
Hermann-Pintus, Lore
Nash, Paul J. (Paul Jerome)
Pintus, Liesel
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich