Stonewall Inn
On July 2, Sullivan recorded the raw video he hoped to edit into the first episode of his TV show, centering the camera on himself as he walked from his neighborhood to Sheridan Square and the Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall Inn bar riot. His mood was darkened by the death of his friend Christina, a transgender woman who only recently had welcomed him and his camera into her bizarre rooms at the Chelsea Hotel. “I miss her terribly now and I always will,” Sullivan said into his camcorder. “I would like for my first cable show to be a memorial to my friend Christina.”