5ninthavenueproject

John Nelson Sullivan † (March 15, 1948 - July 4, 1989 [aged 41])https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41934921/john-nelson-sullivan was an American videographer. He is regarded as one of the first people to pioneer vlogging. Nelson had started recording videos of his life sometime in May 1983, and documenting New York City as it was in the mid-to-late 1980's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qc9sISu5yc
His most famous video is his McDonalds tape, which was recorded in 1989.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJAtkqiV8U Nelson continued to recorded videos until his final one, which he had made on the day before his death on July 3, 1989.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0kPyTeZps On July 4, 1989, Nelson died in the early hours of the morning due to a heart attack.
In 2008, Dick Richards and many other people had wanted to preserve Nelson's tapes and share to upload them onto YouTube. On December 4, 2008, Dick and his friends had created a channel dedicated to Nelson's recordings, for all users on YouTube to see.https://www.youtube.com/@5ninthavenueproject/about
Nelson Sullivan was a member of the LGBT community.https://www.womensrepublic.net/how-nelson-sullivan-captured-queer-history/
==Legacy==
Regarded as one of the first vloggers by many people, he has been praised by many because of the well-thought documentation of his life in the 1980's, which was extremely uncommon back then among other people. Nelson's style of videos were very reminiscent of how people vlog today in the modern world.
He is also important to the LGBT community for his videos' cultural significance in capturing an important time in LGBT history.https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/nelson-sullivan-videos-queer-new-york.html
==Richards' death==
On September 13, 2018, Richards, who preserved the tapes, founded the channel and uploaded them, and who was also in the LGBT community and involved with many famous LGBT figures, such as RuPaul, died.https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/dick-richards-obit-atlanta-rupaul-emmys.html
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2008
Category:Deceased YouTubers
Category:LGBT YouTubers