# Jonathan Keeperman

Jonathan Keeperman, also known by his pseudonym "Lomez" (stylised L0m3z), leads Passage Publishing, also known as Passage Press, an American far-right and "new right" publisher. Keeperman was a University of California, Irvine, lecturer from 2013 to 2022.
Founded in 2021, Passage publishes works from online personalities, reprints and new translations of fiction and nonfiction from historical fascist and reactionary authors.

## Biography

Keeperman was born to a Jewish family and was raised in Moraga, California. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1996. In college, he played for the University of California, San Diego, basketball team. Keeperman was a master of fine arts student at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and was a lecturer in the university's English department from 2013 to 2022.
He began blogging with the "Mr Lomez" pseudonym in 2006, according to The Guardian. He used the Lomez identity from 2012 to 2014 in the comment section of Steve Sailer's blog posts, and then on Twitter accounts since around 2015. Lomez has used anti-gay and anti-Asian slurs, referenced white nationalist memes, proposed journalists should be lynched, and promoted a conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is gay. In the 2020s, Lomez wrote in The American Mind, The Federalist, and an anti-feminist essay in First Things.
In 2024, the "Lomez" Twitter persona associated with Passage Publishing was revealed by The Guardian to be Keeperman.

## Publishing
### Passage Publishing

Passage Publishing, also known as Passage Press, is a far-right and "new right" publisher led by Keeperman. It was founded in 2021 out of the Passage Prize, an online writing and arts competition offering a $20,000 cryptocurrency prize for selected works. The judges were neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin and self-published author "Zero HP Lovecraft." Passage Publishing has published two books resulting from its Passage Prize writing and art competitions. In 2023, Passage Prize was rebranded as "Passage Publishing," and was expanded through acquisitions of Mystery Grove Publishing. Passage has published compendiums from online figures Nick Land, Steve Sailer, and Curtis Yarvin. Through its imprint Passage Classics, Passage Publishing also offers works by, as described by The Guardian, "radical German nationalist and militarist Ernst Jünger; Peter Kemp, who fought as a volunteer in Franco’s army during the Spanish civil war; and two counter-revolutionary Russian aristocrats, White Russian general Pyotr Wrangel and Prince Serge Obolensky".
Passage Publishing also engages in cultural projects, including sponsoring events. Fashion designer Elena Velez, a habitué of the Dimes Square scene, has been sponsored by Passage and cited the company and its founder as inspiration.
Man's World is a bi-annual men's magazine published by Passage Publishing. Raw Egg Nationalist, the pseudonymous British writer who leads the magazine, and Keeperman, were described by The Guardian as "prominent members of the so-called 'new right.'" Raw Egg Nationalist is a "key thinker within frogtwitter" and a member of the right-wing bodybuilder community whose cookbook with the white nationalist publisher Antelope Hill advocates "the massive consumption of raw eggs", as described by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology.