Nelson Sullivan
2021Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Nelson Sullivan
Jayne County, Phoebe Legere
From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.
Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan, RuPaul
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.
Nelson Sullivan
RuPaul & Felecia Having Fun in New York - October 18, 1984
Nelson Sullivan
RuPaul, Felecia
On an afternoon outing with Felecia in New York 1984, RuPaul has an incident with some homophobes at a showing of Kevin Larmee's paintings at the Avenue B Gallery and does some fun things too.
RuPaul & Felecia Having Fun in New York - October 18, 1984