A Night at Mars in 1989: RuPaul's nightclub show
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2015
- One gay night at Rudolf's Mars discotheque, Lahoma was hostessing a bingo game while RuPaul was getting ready for a show in Mars' downstairs. Nelson was there recording all the action on his video camcorder. In this video, RuPaul does a live costume change on stage for the first time ever.
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3:46 Cause if you can't love yourself, how the hell you gon' love somebody else?! Amen RuPaul!
Chile!
AMEN!
Love your self❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is an early revival. Prophetizing the gospel of Rupaul. Amen!
and 20 years later Rupaul casts Lahoma in Starrbooty. When RuPaul says "we gotta stick together", she means it. I love her so much!!!
He has never changed his philosophy.... love! Queen of Realness!
@3:00 she's still preaching the same amazing words of love 32 years later! I love this video
i am so grateful that nelson's work was preserved, for all of us to enjoy. i'm just fascinated, and am devouring each and every video. i'm a massive RuPaul fan, and am loving seeing him in his younger years, when he was first starting out.
R.I.P.
nelson
if this was filmed in 1989 he must of died not too long after this. l can only imagine the things he would of been doing today.
Rich Bones he died July 4,1989 of a heat attack.
is it me or Clubs back then used to be more diverse ?
Yes. Back then the clubs were fun times were so much fun back then I miss those days
I spotted my partner Jaime and me in this. The two leather boys. Black jackets w German painted on the back, dancing while Cyndi Lauper played. We LOVED Mars and they put us in Project X for a Mars advertisement. We had such fun! I loved all of those marvelous club people and had the best time in my life for 10 years living in Manhattan! Woo-hoo!!!!
I went to the Mars club in August 1989 , I think this may have been the night I met them both, I was with my friend Bill Meyer who I was staying with in town , I cant believe this clip is on here, wow it brings back some memories
That wouldn't be right Nelson Sullivan passed away July 3rd or 4th of 89 he'd have been dead by August
Everett Garrett July 4th 😞
@@everettgarrett4858 Ok yes your right , I was there 20 August very similar show with Ru and Lahoma great memories
blogging before the digital age. can you imagine how heavy that camera was? lol
This footage needs to be in an archive. Awesome.
Laura Tanner it is. You’re watching the archive right now. Lol
Lincoln just made its way to the to NYU Library
I love seeing Ru's beautiful soul (and body) goes back over three decades. She's been such a wonderful Queen of Reality.
God! No money young and just having a blast loving life😍😘
"start the tape!"
to think in just 3 short years after this night..he set the world on fire
♡ him #awesomeness
I wonder if RuPaul ever still sees Lahoma. It would be amazing for them to have an interview together after all this time.
legs for days
Priceless, I feel more connected to a moment in time I could've never experienced, RU, back to her roots
It's so cool hearing Madonna playing in clubs in the 80s. Like her or not she is a true living legend. Don't know that there will ever be another Madonna and Michael.
Ru was so graceful, even when he started out! Thank you Ru!!⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠⭐🌟🌠
Ru's a real chick. All about unity. He hasn't changed other than being a lil more glam.
What a great snap shot of this moment in time. Thank you for making it and thank you for sharing it.
Thank you, Nelson, for your documentation of this fascinating time and place!
extraordinary footage
Yasss RuPaul my iPhone is 🔥🔥🔥😩😂
man this looks fun
"for you people watching tv right now..."
nah ru im on youtube get with the times
This vid was made at the end of the 1980s, the way people could watch it at that time was by tv...
This was before the internet, genius.
lol, smart ass needs to get with the times them selves, its the 80s in this vid dumbass
this is obviously a joke um
lol calling someone a smartass n dumbass is contradicting
This is so unreal. I'm living for these videos haha
The gay clubs in the mid/late 90s. we used to sneak into them, underage here in Calgary. They had this type of industrial district vibe to them too. I was a baby gay totally drinking & partying in bars like this. We were so young. It was so much more safer back then.
The Brother in the Leather Jacket Was Fine..🤼
This is awesome!
How cool is this! And I love the very very end. “It’s really nice out; really pretty.”
Music was fun and sooooooo good!
What a stunnah...lol. Do you see those legs? All legs. Lol. Just gorgeous. Some dont realize. Drag and gay clubs were always the start of what was up and coming in fashion, music, and dance. It would always start there. Innovators and creators bcuz they never lack imagination.
Lol he loved his challenges from early go on ru u rule
I hope that nelson got to see rupaul start to blow he is such a lovely friend
pudddingpie he died of a heart attack just a few months after this night. 😞
I love the ending. Reminds me of me last night coming home
Perfect time of fun and amazing life
Wow. RuPaul lipsynching for her life.
Check out those kitten heels, love it
I had ru Paul's shoes in red and black. I wish I still had them
The Hairspray song! Love that John Waters flick!
that was cool!
Nelson constantly zooming in on the guy in his underwear is making me laugh! 💀
“The Catholics confiscated your bingo license”
i wish ru paul was my friend lol
Yes!
If covid wasn’t a thing at all I would love to believe this would be me starting my drag, living and loving gay life at a club. I wish there was a scene like this in Dallas :/
I wish I could go to a club... I've been in quarantine longer than I've been 21 😭😭
I do wish that I could have seen the more innocent of these scenes.
Shangela seems to have RuPaul’s personality. No wonder I like her so much!
Oh damn. Erik B and Rakim "Paid In Full."
Mars was hip!
Plot Twist: Ru Paul IS Donna Summer.
@6:40 when she did Whitney Houston I wish I could of seen the whole performance OMG. I lost my mind when I heard the song start
Headshot Ville87 Right! Sasha Velour’s now signature song
Headshot Ville87 Rupaul did Hot stuff by the queen of disco Donna Summer
I couldn't make out the 2nd song
Bless😢
White linesssss
Omg that looks siiiiiiiiiiiiiic in there want to jump in and get down
❤️FLORENT!!!
Eu sou transexaul e vivi os anos 80 e posso dizer que foram os anos magico .
Im here just for Trade 12:14
I hear ya! Trade was hot. He always looked like a Versace model when they used hunks instead of sickly skinny boys. I'm glad he's still alive and well.
He was my roommate in a railroad apt we had in Hells Kitchen, he was such a whore, he was always dragin' and bangin' someone all the time. I let him stay at my place in PTown one summer, he brought a boyfriend who brought a pet pig and snakes! Never a dull moment with him. One time he was house sitting some rich friend of his, who had a massive gorgeous apt. facing the Hudson, we threw a huge dinner party and RuRu came over (we call RuPaul that). Final story, one night many many years later I was at a bathhouse in Fort Lauderdale, I ran into one of Frederick's (TRADE) regular fuck boy when we lived in NY. He was so hot and still was, I drove him back to his hotel he was staying at, we kissed and he asked me to fuck I him...I thought it to weird....damn I wish I did now....
TRADE AT THE END HOLY FUCK
She reminds me so much of Shangela, it makes sense why she has such a soft spot for her:’))))
I thought the same thing
12:00-12:30 such a funny mishmash
omg cristina 😭
I wasn’t even born yet holy
Paris Hilton who this man is the originator of Selfies
Diana Ross....so inspired Rupaul....And me too 😊❤️👍😊
That’s a Donna Summer song
@@kristimcleod1987 I'm talking bout Rupaul always shouting out the fab Diana Boss Ross. I truly digged Donna too
When rupaul was legs back in the days
Yooo the underwear why?!!
I saw that too 😦
Maybe it was a symbol or meaning to it that night??
noticing a few deaths mentioned in these videos. sad state of affairs
Pity the footage of rupauls lip syncs were cut, would’ve loved to see his stage acts
Great video! Does anybody know if RuPaul ever met Whitney Houston in person?
I read the videographer, Nelson died in 1989. He looks fine in this clip, does anyone know what he died off?
He died of a heart attack. No one knows why. He was in great health as far as all records show and he didn't use drugs or drink.
Heart attack
KatyDelMar I wish I could thank him in person for capturing this. I was born in 1989 so this is so unreal to think about for me
Yes for Diana Ross shout out Right!!! 😚
Btw, Wendy Williams must be vibng off Ru.. 💋
I REALLY want to know, what was in Larry's boot??? :-) 10:31
sirev1 coke?
12:07 DAMN
Sup with the man in his stained undies
Eduardo Perez just another one of the performers of the night.
@@Bootbitch he cuute thoo
Eduardo Perez Thank god somebody else notice!!! Lol
White lines going thru my mind
7:20
Naomi Smalls got nothing on Ru Paul’s long legs!!!
DRUGS lol
Love Rue, but if she came out performing this in a lip sync for your like battle she would be sashaying away lol
How has no one commented on that??? Fucking disgusting.
can someone verify if that's Lady Bunny holding the curtain in front of Ru?
Maisie Newman no it's not bunny but they were already friends at this point. That was Lahoma.
LAHOMA
It don’t look fake either. If it is it’s still absolutely disgusting.
spook show what do you mean?
You're from CA not GA. Liar lol
LosAngeles.323 yep Ru was born in San Diego. But after his parents divorced when he was 7yrs he moved to Atlanta and lives there throughout his teens.
When you move somewhere at 7 and come of age in a place that you from then on called home with your family then you ARE from that city. Wtf? I moved to my hometown at 5 and spent my entire childhood through college in my home town. I damned well am from that place! When you’re seven you don’t have attachments and memories fade as you grow into who you are over the years in your new home city. He didn’t lie. Jeez.
Touch your television set - touch it - cause it's hot in here.