This series consists of materials created solely, or principally, by Paul Nash. The bulk of the materials relates to Nash's writings, in particular his work as a newspaper editor and journalist, beginning on the Los Angeles Collegian, the Los Angeles City College student newspaper, then as Los Angeles City editor of Update, a gay newspaper for San Diego and Los Angeles. The materials include an incomplete run of the Los Angeles Collegian from October 1976 to June 1978, as well as investigative and subject files, correspondence, news stories, news releases, clippings, postcards, flyers, and other materials used to provide information for each issue of Update. The series also includes materials used by Nash to research and write his M.A. thesis on the Treatment of Homosexuality in the Editorials, Political Cartoons and Opinions in the Los Angeles Times 1984, and a small number of files relating to Nash's personal life and academic studies.