“His mind was stuck. Nothing came next. There was a whining in his ears. His head felt like a beehive. His grip dissipated like a sandbank underfoot and a deep sense of horror engulfed him, made him breathless, made the hairs on the back of his neck quiver. He squatted, rocking gently back and forth, sorting through the bits and pieces. This went on for years”
– DAVID ABELLO, Sydney Australia 2000
“People fighting, people living, I loathe fighting. Keep up the living. People screaming the world is for loving, I fear the screaming. Keep up the loving. People dying, Oh, I love the loving. Please stop the dying.”
– DAVID URQUHART’s feelings, expressed by Kevin Coyne (1979), Sydney Australia 2000
DAVID ABELLO and DAVID URQUHART
David Abello is a social scientist. He has an Honours Degree in Social Science. He has been active in queer/communities/movements over many decades. He holds voluntary positions on a number of boards for management of disability support and advocacy-related organisations in NSW. He has a psychiatric disability.
David Urquhart has been an activist in the disability and queer movements since 1968. He is a volunteer Director for People with Disabilities (NSW) Inc. He left school before finishing and worked in the rag trade until 1968, when he got tired of flogging bras and girdles. He then became a sugar-crazed taxi driver. He spent four years at art school and wonders why. He has hearing loss, chronic hypertension, and a posterior disc protrusion.