Not to mention, no one was afraid to show their face on camera for fear of being exposed as gay to work or family. Before the days of internet, smartphones, and social media.
@@Multifacted_Brotha I think about $2,000 $3,000 in 1983 usd, which adjusted for inflation would be like 7 to 9k today. Several of my wealthy relatives had them when I was very young and I was so jealous.
Seeing this time capsule is very bittersweet. Everyone is having a great time but some of these people in this footage are no longer here with us because of the AIDS crisis. If you were around during the crisis, you can never forget including myself. May their souls and to all those who lost their lives due to AIDS, Rest in Peace.
No rest,missing God's way celebrating sin festival to take God's wrath on your own plate, Rest is Jesus who truly love you come back still waits you this is golden time for you🎉
The very thought that made me tear up halfway through...but mostly I just loved seeing so many smiles and hearing so much friendliness. I was a year old when it was filmed and it'd be at least another twenty years before I reached their level of comfort with themselves.
lesterclaypool1 you mean Nelson’s younger friends I would guess; Bunny, Lahoma, Ru, etc. Nelson made friend easily but having seen dozens of videos I know he suffered close losses. When Moved to Ny 1988 Nelson was filming the first Pride parade I attended and my companion knew Nelson and we lingered as he spoke about all the loss to Michael Musto (a day frozen in memory from another great Nelson Pride video)
3:46 I loved it when that lovable stranger asked Nelson if anybody has taken his picture yet. Because Nelson was too busy recording everyone else. Nelson was really a wholesome guy. I wish he was still around.
I kid you not, I saw someone using a payphone the other day (a younger guy), with actual coins and all. He made a call that lasted less than a minute. You could hear the coins go in after he hung up the phone. It BLEW MY MIND and was so weird to see in July of 2021.
This Sucks That does not mean it was not a simpler time, it was indeed in many facets of life. There are many other issues today that the 80s did not have. Yes it may be simpler to be gay today, but life as a whole was simpler back then.
@@GrinddalCPH: If you're narrowly talking about the internet and cell phone you're no doubt using right this second, then remember when you wanted to know something and had to wait for the library to open up Monday, go thumb through books and hopefully the one you took home had a satisfactory answer. Now, 6 letters: Google Much, much, much simpler times now.
This Sucks I am not talking about the internet. I am talking about how we measure ourselves, and how we are exposed to other peoples perfect lives and want that for ourselves. People present themselves as perfect on social media, and this creates some very bad dynamics. Also, we are the first generation to ever make less than our parents, even tho we are better educated. We have higher suicide rates, thw world is more polluted, resources are going at a rate that we cannot regenerate them for the first time ever. We have very little social interactions. In some ways the library was simpler. We have SJWs, PC culture, much much more government control and interference, A middle class that is dissapearing. More inflation. I could go on.
everyone is grungy looking. no one to impress. just living - being themselves in a grungy environment. very interesting perspective. I think we all chase this vibe now.. however, we try to look good today while carrying this carefree vibe. but we aren't selling it as good as these people.. we struggle at it.
I've read that because of the AIDS crisis, prior began to REALLY focus on looking "perfect" to disassociate from being suspected with the virus. That's how the 90s started and continued; then the advent of social media pushed that strive for perfection to the Nth degree
My goodness, I can't even remember my phone number sometimes. Seven damn numbers, and I don't even have the area code. Neither from the country nor from my direct place of residence.
Gay pride parades are so awesome. No one is there to judge, you can be yourself, people just having a good time and being happy. Even back then. The only thing that is different today is it is a lot more colorful but the good vibes are always there, then and now.
It’s hard to understand that he did all this while holding a 20lb weight on his shoulder while carrying a briefcase seemingly filled with bricks under his arm with cords wrapped around his arms. It took real effort to make public video in 1983, we are SO lucky to have the rewards of his toil!
I love these videos! This was the gay NYC I grew up in. At the end of this very year 3 of us packed up and moved to SF,CA and I've lived here ever since. It's hard to believe that there are people in the comments saying "what crisis?". Yes, by 83 we already knew about GRID/AIDS. The first friend of mine passed in 81 of "a strange new pneumonia", and so it began. But it's wonderful to see Nelson's footage, the friendliness and happiness of the day in the Village!
I know I was stunned when I saw that comment maybe it was a young person, but as any gay person should be aware of about the horrible AIDS crisis that was ignored by the Regan Administration and paid no mind until they were forced by all the AIDS activists. Sad times in our history and so many talented young ppl just perished just like that. ♥️🌈
Yesb but noboy know, the newspapers stat to talk about aids in 1985, they call and think aids was a cancer, especially Kapozi sarcoma, because aids are visible in the skin
I think this is New York City people look greasy dark and outdated ..yeah it looks like the mid-70s not 1983 and by 1987 everything was clean cut and music was great and life was good for everyone except those infected with HIV
It's sad, because you can tell that these guys were all from a distinct, older circle than those filmed by Nelson later on in his series. We'll never know how many of them perished to the AIDS Epidemic...
The way the one Gentleman asked Nelson how he was feeling makes me wonder if he had any underlying health issues that assisted in stealing him from us so quickly!
wow MJ on the radio i havent heard him since like when he died. Its kinda sad how all this shit you used to think of as super important as a kid just fades away and gets practically forgotten.
This is a great time capsule. I noticed the guy who said he was marching with the "Health Criss" ( Gay Men's Health Crisis formed in the very early time of AIDS onset)....Sad that nearly every guy in this vid probably had no idea of the horror and death that was coming in the few years after Gay Pride 1983).
@TheTpanative Thank you for sharing this with me. I'm 25 years old, im not gay and I will never know what it was like to live at that time, but I really respect the history of these people and what they went through. I believe it wasn't easy but im happy things have changed and i hope it gets even better.
@TheTpanative Wow, just thinking about the desperation of some people fearing for their lives because of something unknown and with a lack of information... My mom tells me some stories of that time. She was around 8 years old, but she remembers those days. Its really surreal! And people's pain at losing their friends and loved ones... It must have been very sad. And thanks for the recommendation! I will try to find it for sure!
Hey! Same here. I was born 5/8/84 . We definitely have some things in common like, I miss the 80's too even though we were really young but still remember it.
1:30 World Trade Center Towers. Had pancakes or French toast in there on the 40th or 70th floor once. "The buildings were designed with narrow office windows 18 inches (46 cm) wide, which reflected Yamasaki's fear of heights as well as his desire to make building occupants feel secure." I am not claustrophobic. What feels secure for some, felt trapped for me.
I was like 11 when this was happening aids was huge and things were different, people where absolutely different, just coming from disco era in to eighties glam
I was 15 in 1983 and was a very closeted insecure overweight teenager living in NYC. I remember AIDS just beginning but it was so far away from my world at the time. These videos are incredible and we should thank Nelson Sullivan every day that we have this footage. Much love.
oh yes heading to the piers at the end of Christopher St after the parade, it would go on all night, the bars would let you carry out drinks, I was there in 83, hoped to spot someone I knew but no luck
I was born less then 2 weeks after this event. Crazy. Feel crazy old now time really just hits you like a brick in the face one day lol. I waited so long to be an adult and now my life is just slipping through my hands lol 😢
At 4:30: a River Club promotion placard. The River Club was famous party-promoter Steven Cohn's own short-lived club in the former Twelve West space at 12th Street and West Street just up the road. The River Club didn't last too long. That building was later demolished.
The guy in orange in the very beginning saying " here I am" is soooo cute. He looks fun and loving and is sooooo handsome. Omg I would ask him out in a second. I hope he lived a happy life. Please, I hope
barely started watching and I have to say , the person has a GORGEOUS positive smile. I hope they're alive and living a wonderful life. The second guy with the beard, dayum daddy!
Look at how many people are at this parade and then look at the one in 1987 where it's a single float of a few people. I beta large number of them in this video were infected and didn't know and thus are gone now. What a tragedy.
Also, I've watched a lot of Nelson's videos, and I don't think I see any of these guys in his later videos (87-89.) I hope they surrvived and just moved on, but I bet some did not.
This guy Nelson is a genius! The original Blogger of his time I have recently subscribed to the channel. Sad to find out Nelson died in 1989. If he was alive he would be famous!
@@xp7575 Well yeah kind of. But in USA just look up at the most resent pride parades. I am part of this community too but some pride parades are....questionable
@@Thunker147 the whole world has changed and straight society is even more hyper-sexualized than gay society is, it has NOTHING to do with pride, your argument is just as silly as saying "pride has too many people distracted by their cell phones" as if that were unique to pride rather than being a nationwide problem that has nothing to do with sexual preference, try using your brain sometime
That neighborhood is a ghost town now. Too sad. I remember walking down 21st btwn 7th & 8th Aves. early '90s and I crossed paths with a guy that had AIDS. We looked into each others eyes & I saw fear & pain. He looked like a walking cadaver. I felt so sorry for him. Prayed for him. Never saw him again. I can still see his face. His eyes.... haunting.
Back when gay men and women still looked like normal humans and not overly made-up sex dolls. Wouldn't it be refreshing to be like that again? I love watching other eras because I'm so out of place in this one.
Wow I wish we could be transported back to a kinder and gentler time, less the AIDS epidemic. It was such a wonderful place to be part of the gay community back then as it was so tight nit and everyone looked out for everyone else. Yes it was very scary, sad, and tragic with what was going on, but there was such compassion and empathy for other gays. There was none of this "shade" shit and reality tv acting that goes on now. People were just nicer then and was not distracted by phones and other technology.
I love hearing PYT on the radio at 1:36. It just reminds me of the times.
If Nelson had not passed away I do believe he would be fantastic and famous today and everybody would love him. He is amazing.
Thought he was still alive. Guess not.
@@EphemeralProductions he didn't even make it to the 90s...😔
@@heartstruth6875 ❤️. Poor guy
@cush african heart attack
Agree
You can tell how rare a VHS recorder was in 1983 (being they were just put on the market). Some passer-bys looked amazed Nelson is holding one.
Not to mention, no one was afraid to show their face on camera for fear of being exposed as gay to work or family. Before the days of internet, smartphones, and social media.
I’m surprised he was never mugged for it... so lucky...
People would be amazed now ... but for a totally different reason.
@@Multifacted_Brotha I think about $2,000 $3,000 in 1983 usd, which adjusted for inflation would be like 7 to 9k today. Several of my wealthy relatives had them when I was very young and I was so jealous.
VHS was developed by JVC back in 1975👆👆
The guy at the start of the video, sitting on the step, he's got the most amazing smile I have ever seen.
brad wallinger who, I thought that was ru paul on the step
Yeah, I was thinking that when I saw him in the thumbnail. Such a beautiful smile.
The one in orange? Reminds me of Naomi Smalls smile for some reason, very infectious and beautiful and happy!
OMG yasss for those big teeth and amazing laugh. Like pure happyness
@@sashkalembowitz203 Yes, the guy in orange.
Seeing this time capsule is very bittersweet. Everyone is having a great time but some of these people in this footage are no longer here with us because of the AIDS crisis. If you were around during the crisis, you can never forget including myself. May their souls and to all those who lost their lives due to AIDS, Rest in Peace.
No rest,missing God's way celebrating sin festival to take God's wrath on your own plate, Rest is Jesus who truly love you come back still waits you this is golden time for you🎉
Kind of breaks my heart, actually. How many of those beautiful people survived the Crisis? My gut says not many. Never forget, indeed.
The very thought that made me tear up halfway through...but mostly I just loved seeing so many smiles and hearing so much friendliness. I was a year old when it was filmed and it'd be at least another twenty years before I reached their level of comfort with themselves.
Almost all of Nelson direct circle have lived well into old age.
That particular group of men were blessed.
lesterclaypool1 you mean Nelson’s younger friends I would guess; Bunny, Lahoma, Ru, etc. Nelson made friend easily but having seen dozens of videos I know he suffered close losses. When Moved to Ny 1988 Nelson was filming the first Pride parade I attended and my companion knew Nelson and we lingered as he spoke about all the loss to Michael Musto (a day frozen in memory from another great Nelson Pride video)
@DANNY DIRE me too
What crisis??
This channel is a treasure!
It really is!!!!
It’s so sad that in ‘83, many of these wonderful men would soon fall victim to an awful thing. It’s nice to see them living life!
What awful thing?
@@dylangallegos7357 AIDS
@@dylangallegos7357 Sadly the HIV/AIDS crisis
@@blueizumi + Jefff will eat them
yummy
AIDS crisis started before 83 🙄
3:46 I loved it when that lovable stranger asked Nelson if anybody has taken his picture yet. Because Nelson was too busy recording everyone else. Nelson was really a wholesome guy. I wish he was still around.
This is far from being a stranger but a good friend of Nelson, Gary LeGault.
It's always nice to see Nelson out from behind the camera, he was so naturally charismatic.
Kinda a Freddie Mercury look going on…. LOL love the pay phones 📞… how times have changed. ❤🌈💐
It's so weird to see people using payphones. I remember always having to have change in your pocket to make phone calls.
Remember when they were a Dime...... And then they went to a quarter..... People were so mad....
Funny what we remember....😊
I kid you not, I saw someone using a payphone the other day (a younger guy), with actual coins and all. He made a call that lasted less than a minute. You could hear the coins go in after he hung up the phone. It BLEW MY MIND and was so weird to see in July of 2021.
right i almost forget this is an 80s tape i half expect people to pull out a cellphone
Damn I read gayphones first and wondered what that was, did you call other gays for a date
Nelson Sullivan...One of history's first vloggers!!! What a great moment in our history he was able to capture!! Thank you our friend!!
😗
Such an awesome time capsule. Gives me those warm, fuzzy feelings of a simpler era. Thank you for posting.
Omg was feeling the same I love it
Simple era with a murder rate triple what it is now. NYC was a bombed out looking hellhole in the 1970s and '80s.
This Sucks That does not mean it was not a simpler time, it was indeed in many facets of life. There are many other issues today that the 80s did not have. Yes it may be simpler to be gay today, but life as a whole was simpler back then.
@@GrinddalCPH: If you're narrowly talking about the internet and cell phone you're no doubt using right this second, then remember when you wanted to know something and had to wait for the library to open up Monday, go thumb through books and hopefully the one you took home had a satisfactory answer. Now, 6 letters: Google Much, much, much simpler times now.
This Sucks I am not talking about the internet. I am talking about how we measure ourselves, and how we are exposed to other peoples perfect lives and want that for ourselves. People present themselves as perfect on social media, and this creates some very bad dynamics. Also, we are the first generation to ever make less than our parents, even tho we are better educated. We have higher suicide rates, thw world is more polluted, resources are going at a rate that we cannot regenerate them for the first time ever. We have very little social interactions. In some ways the library was simpler. We have SJWs, PC culture, much much more government control and interference, A middle class that is dissapearing. More inflation. I could go on.
everyone is grungy looking. no one to impress. just living - being themselves in a grungy environment. very interesting perspective. I think we all chase this vibe now.. however, we try to look good today while carrying this carefree vibe. but we aren't selling it as good as these people.. we struggle at it.
I was going to say the same damn thing !
It's like there's a veneer over just about everything today. Genuine is hard to find.
¿Que? Everybody was pimping and preening.
I've read that because of the AIDS crisis, prior began to REALLY focus on looking "perfect" to disassociate from being suspected with the virus. That's how the 90s started and continued; then the advent of social media pushed that strive for perfection to the Nth degree
Carefree vibe? Hard to achieve In an increasingly homophobic world.
Back when u actually HAD to know someone's phone number.
Information.
The phone book.
My goodness, I can't even remember my phone number sometimes. Seven damn numbers,
and I don't even have the area code. Neither from the country nor from my direct place of residence.
Exactly! I miss those days.
It's amazing to see such an old piece of footage, its totally appreciated by me! What a time capsule!
PYT on the radio!! i love it. Thriller was hot then!
It still is! Michael 😍❤️😍❤️
YESSSSSSS! ❤️
You never stepped foot in ny back then please shush.
I hate people like you thay wanna Comment on things and never been walked or smelled the real new york. You just don't know the vibe.
Gay pride parades are so awesome. No one is there to judge, you can be yourself, people just having a good time and being happy. Even back then. The only thing that is different today is it is a lot more colorful but the good vibes are always there, then and now.
Hearing pyt, omg, makes me long for the past.
Half of them look like Freddie Mercury
So true 😂
Oh yeah but that was the style of course. I would guess maybe the gay man style but I was like 9 yeas old back then and had no clue.
The other half Luke Marcel Marceau.
They called them clones. I remember that phrase for some reason.
bc freddie followed that gay kind of style of the 80s
I’m thankful for each one of them. Thank you for stand up.
So awesome no phones people actually interacting
It’s hard to understand that he did all this while holding a 20lb weight on his shoulder while carrying a briefcase seemingly filled with bricks under his arm with cords wrapped around his arms. It took real effort to make public video in 1983, we are SO lucky to have the rewards of his toil!
I love these videos! This was the gay NYC I grew up in. At the end of this very year 3 of us packed up and moved to SF,CA and I've lived here ever since. It's hard to believe that there are people in the comments saying "what crisis?". Yes, by 83 we already knew about GRID/AIDS. The first friend of mine passed in 81 of "a strange new pneumonia", and so it began. But it's wonderful to see Nelson's footage, the friendliness and happiness of the day in the Village!
thank you for enlightening folks
I know I was stunned when I saw that comment maybe it was a young person, but as any gay person should be aware of about the horrible AIDS crisis that was ignored by the Regan Administration and paid no mind until they were forced by all the AIDS activists. Sad times in our history and so many talented young ppl just perished just like that. ♥️🌈
Yesb but noboy know, the newspapers stat to talk about aids in 1985, they call and think aids was a cancer, especially Kapozi sarcoma, because aids are visible in the skin
I can't believe this it what 35 years ago looks like .it's so fucking cool
Thank you so much for uploading this! Happy Pride everyone!
Those cars !
Gary at 2:37 is so handsome! Nelson likes him, you can tell.
what a dream i’ve been looking for videos like this
Nelson looks so young and handsome in this ❤️
You can still feel and see the 70s here, by '87 it's gone. The world was changing so fast then. It still is but in a very different way.
I think this is New York City people look greasy dark and outdated ..yeah it looks like the mid-70s not 1983 and by 1987 everything was clean cut and music was great and life was good for everyone except those infected with HIV
I love Nelson's videos!!! Brings back great memories of what NY in day of ole....Never thought I'd be saying that, but it's a whole other city now!
I hope someone filmed is alive and make comments here.
Junior Jr. He died in 1989 of a heart attack at 41 years of age.
@@kilo393: There are a lot of someones filmed.
That's would be amazing!!!!!
This was so neat to see ! Also this was the year I was born !
It's sad, because you can tell that these guys were all from a distinct, older circle than those filmed by Nelson later on in his series. We'll never know how many of them perished to the AIDS Epidemic...
Love looking at classic cars in their prime
Thanks Mr.Nelson. You guided my curiosity sage and sound.
Nice snapshot of NYC gay life back in the early 1980s. And I was THERE to experience it all.
Great times I hope. Be well.
This is my birth year. I love how they call video recording “taking a picture”.
The way the one Gentleman asked Nelson how he was feeling makes me wonder if he had any underlying health issues that assisted in stealing him from us so quickly!
John had a bad heart his father passed away from heart related issues too :/
Nelson passed in 2016... so i think he was luckier than most... RIP
wow MJ on the radio i havent heard him since like when he died. Its kinda sad how all this shit you used to think of as super important as a kid just fades away and gets practically forgotten.
Thriller is still hot! 😎
Invincible Beauty Still is too! It is... invincible!
Sure!!! I have the Vinyl ..
I was 1 years old when this was filmed woooow how time flys ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Me, too. I can't even imagine what it was like seeing all of your friends dying.
The guy dancing 0:24 looks so much like Freddie Mercury!
This is a great time capsule. I noticed the guy who said he was marching with the "Health Criss" ( Gay Men's Health Crisis formed in the very early time of AIDS onset)....Sad that nearly every guy in this vid probably had no idea of the horror and death that was coming in the few years after Gay Pride 1983).
My first Nelson vídeo, met him 2 years ago and never abandoned him ❤️
1:40 Wow! There was playing Michael Jackson!❤ That's so cool!!!! People in the 80's were so lucky!
I hope they knew that...!!!✌💕
@TheTpanative Thank you for sharing this with me. I'm 25 years old, im not gay and I will never know what it was like to live at that time, but I really respect the history of these people and what they went through. I believe it wasn't easy but im happy things have changed and i hope it gets even better.
@TheTpanative Wow, just thinking about the desperation of some people fearing for their lives because of something unknown and with a lack of information... My mom tells me some stories of that time. She was around 8 years old, but she remembers those days. Its really surreal! And people's pain at losing their friends and loved ones... It must have been very sad. And thanks for the recommendation! I will try to find it for sure!
This has become one of my new favorite channels!
Trans guy 🏳️⚧️ here born in 1984.
These videos are pure magic.
THANK YOU for sharing them!
Hey! Same here. I was born 5/8/84 . We definitely have some things in common like, I miss the 80's too even though we were really young but still remember it.
So female pretending to be a gay man..
@@vikingsong2068He’s identify himself as man so idk what you talking about
@@vikingsong2068god we don’t need you people policeing people
@0:37 so handsome! Love Nelsons videos. Little snippets of the 80s ❤️
I really like the old days!! (Brasil),
Oh, look at Nelson! This is One of the very first videos he recorded!
Pay phones, almost forgotten. 📱 🌟
1:30 World Trade Center Towers. Had pancakes or French toast in there on the 40th or 70th floor once. "The buildings were designed with narrow office windows 18 inches (46 cm) wide, which reflected Yamasaki's fear of heights as well as his desire to make building occupants feel secure." I am not claustrophobic. What feels secure for some, felt trapped for me.
I was like 11 when this was happening aids was huge and things were different, people where absolutely different, just coming from disco era in to eighties glam
I was 15 in 1983 and was a very closeted insecure overweight teenager living in NYC. I remember AIDS just beginning but it was so far away from my world at the time. These videos are incredible and we should thank Nelson Sullivan every day that we have this footage. Much love.
That nite was the paradise Garage and track’s and dance for life beautiful beautiful life
The pay phone scene 😂🙌🏻
Laughing so hard at what?
1:27 1:43 Mj pyt song love it he was everywhere
oh yes heading to the piers at the end of Christopher St after the parade, it would go on all night, the bars would let you carry out drinks, I was there in 83, hoped to spot someone I knew but no luck
I was born less then 2 weeks after this event. Crazy. Feel crazy old now time really just hits you like a brick in the face one day lol. I waited so long to be an adult and now my life is just slipping through my hands lol 😢
At 4:30: a River Club promotion placard. The River Club was famous party-promoter Steven Cohn's own short-lived club in the former Twelve West space at 12th Street and West Street just up the road. The River Club didn't last too long. That building was later demolished.
Sooo many mustaches.
Ahhaha those thick porn mustaches were huge back then OMG 🤣
The gay "flavor saver" mustache of those days.
The guy in orange in the very beginning saying " here I am" is soooo cute. He looks fun and loving and is sooooo handsome. Omg I would ask him out in a second. I hope he lived a happy life. Please, I hope
Spectacular footage of many who are sadly no longer with us. Not sure what that was at timecode 4:34 to 4:43 but the contraption looked interesting!
It's a waffle iron.
@DiscoMatty1979 That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.
It's crazy to see some cars roll by casually from the 1960s
My father still owns a car that he bought in 1991, if it still moves and takes you from A to B, I don't see the problem with it
It's not that crazy. It really isnt.
barely started watching and I have to say , the person has a GORGEOUS positive smile. I hope they're alive and living a wonderful life. The second guy with the beard, dayum daddy!
Sadly, they are all gone.
@@ajecks why are you saying that with such certainty . You dont know their life lmao
@@queenqueen977read the channel info 🤡
Love how he greeted someone on the phone with "hi, how are you?". Now people just say something dumb like, "wadup?"
1980s black people are my favourite era of black peoples
1970s white people are my favourite era of white peoples
Kaisers Kingdom 1940s whites are my
Favorite
Yeah 80's niggas was better neva noticed it
@@danacantu6714 Stfu
WTH.......
Who else can smell all the fumes from those cars driving by?! Aside from that, beautiful era. Beautiful moment in time.
Just wish I was there living that life....so sad though that pple age and pass away...such is life
"Look at that beautiful camera!" 3:24
So kind. I bet Nelson loved that :)
Love this vibe sooooo bad🤍🤍🤍
Search these coordinates on Google maps and use Street View to see the streets he mentions at the end of the video.
40.732919,-74.004002
thanks a lot
Look at how many people are at this parade and then look at the one in 1987 where it's a single float of a few people. I beta large number of them in this video were infected and didn't know and thus are gone now. What a tragedy.
Also, I've watched a lot of Nelson's videos, and I don't think I see any of these guys in his later videos (87-89.) I hope they surrvived and just moved on, but I bet some did not.
Nelson was a very handsome man. ❣
Some of these guys are such cuties! Especially the guy at 2:10! Bless him! I hope he is still around
This guy Nelson is a genius! The original Blogger of his time I have recently subscribed to the channel. Sad to find out Nelson died in 1989. If he was alive he would be famous!
Nelson was a Boss.
Now THIS is a real pride. No sexualition, no kids and just people having fun celebrating love❤
Nothing's changed bro
@@xp7575 Well yeah kind of. But in USA just look up at the most resent pride parades. I am part of this community too but some pride parades are....questionable
@@Thunker147 the whole world has changed and straight society is even more hyper-sexualized than gay society is, it has NOTHING to do with pride, your argument is just as silly as saying "pride has too many people distracted by their cell phones" as if that were unique to pride rather than being a nationwide problem that has nothing to do with sexual preference, try using your brain sometime
Everyone looked so slim and trim back then…
Cocaine was popular...
1:02 awkward conversation lol hahahah
Looks super chill
So refreshing...no cell phones!!!
Nelson bro you were so damn cool
That neighborhood is a ghost town now. Too sad. I remember walking down 21st btwn 7th & 8th Aves. early '90s and I crossed paths with a guy that had AIDS. We looked into each others eyes & I saw fear & pain. He looked like a walking cadaver. I felt so sorry for him. Prayed for him. Never saw him again. I can still see his face. His eyes.... haunting.
1983...I was 20 years old
That's awesome you got to experience Disco. I was barely two years old in 1983
Back when gay men and women still looked like normal humans and not overly made-up sex dolls. Wouldn't it be refreshing to be like that again? I love watching other eras because I'm so out of place in this one.
We've become tv characters acting it out in Real life oversexualized, drugged up and can't hold real conversations
Wow the year I was born trippy trippy ♥️🙏🏼♥️ bless all of their hearts♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️
2:14 The thumbnail looks exactly like the Veritasium science guy on TH-cam.
Just about the year he was born.
4:00 nelson was so pretty
This looks like so much fun. Any pride event I go to now just entails people trying to sell me stuff
Wow I wish we could be transported back to a kinder and gentler time, less the AIDS epidemic. It was such a wonderful place to be part of the gay community back then as it was so tight nit and everyone looked out for everyone else. Yes it was very scary, sad, and tragic with what was going on, but there was such compassion and empathy for other gays. There was none of this "shade" shit and reality tv acting that goes on now. People were just nicer then and was not distracted by phones and other technology.
There was rampant gay discrimination and the NYC crime rate was through the roof. The city was a cesspool.
love u nelson
Is this wicker park in 2013?
Yes
I was born in 84” so this is honestly so interesting to me
1:47 Jacko playing away! Always!!
Then
And now
I keep looking for me and my sister and friends in the background LOL
4:35 talk about throwback!
4:19 looks like Nelson?? I’m like, uh how did he swap and clean up from the costume so fast..
God ! I miss the eighties !! 💋