Urquhart, David

 

David Urquhart (1939-)

David worked in the clothing industry for many years and became politicised when he got involved in the work of the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross. He joined the Darlinghurst Residents Action Group in the 1970s where fellow resident and art gallery owner Frank Watters encouraged him to attend East Sydney Technical College and pursue photography. David began his involvement in the gay movement in 1978, when he went to support those arrested on the night of the First Mardi Gras. David’s interview contains observations of the camp scene of the 1960s, the aftermath of the First Mardi Gras, Gay Mens’ Rap, Gay Waves, the 1981 Mardi Gras and the first community responses in Sydney to HIV/AIDS. Part 4 of this interview discusses David’s photography and activism in later life.

Photo: Supplied/David Urquhart

 

Oral history recordings

 

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UPride History GroupSt Lukes Hospital Kings Cross, Homebush, Prince of Wales Hospital, Bowral Boarding School, Chevalier College Burradoo, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Christian Brothers Lewisham, Homebush Salesyard, Muellers Radiators Camperdown, Colgate Palmolive, Daylesford Centenary Wollens, David Jones, Jenyns Patent Corset Pty, Beats, Denistone, Hunters Hill, Top Ryde, Parramatta, Commercial Hotel Parramatta, Curzons, Purple Onion, Bankstown, Jasmine, Centenary Woollen Mills, Roslyn Gardens, Tony Old, Long Bay Gaol, Wayside Chapel, Bob May, John Jeffrey, John Webster, Ted Noffs, CAMP, Lindsay Burke, Moratorium, UNSW, Jeanie Lewis, Adonis Pancake Parlour, Double Bay, Castellos, Rex hotel, Jim Fishburn, Feathers, John (Estay) Lauder, Wentworth Hotel, The Tatler, Stanley Palmer Culture Palace, Chic Salons, Hopewood Health Foundation, Darlinghurst, Woolloomooloo, Jack Mundy, TNT, Darlinghurst Residents' Action Group, Frank Watters, Gay Men's Rap, Gavin Harris, Nimbin, Annie Parkinson, First Mardi Gras, Darlinghurst Police Station, Virginia Bell, Peter Collingwood, Karl Krautschnader, Darkroom, Photography, Gaywaves, Shane Brown, Greg Reading, Susan Hawkeswood, David Abello, Susan Ardill, Graeme Head, Nori, Uma KaliShakti, Gay Radio Collective, 2SER, Prue Borthwick, Michael Glynn, Pink Dollar, Side Effects, Robin Gibson Gallery, National Homosexual Conference, Gay Solidarity Group, Gay Centre, AIDS Council, Trade Union Club, PLWHA, Talkabout, HIV/AIDS, ACON, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation, Community Support Network, PLWA, Paul Young, East Sydney Tech, Robert Eady, John Williams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sex Pictures, Ankali, Sydney College of the Arts, State Library of NSW, Images Gallery Glebe, La Trobe University, Fabian Lo Schiavo, ArtSpace, Stills Gallery, Pix Botanica, Role Over, James Harvey Gallery, Out Art, Out with Pride, Don't Look Gallery Dulwich Hill, Zines, Trent Nathan, 2203 Collective, Queer, Queer Space Enmore, Marriage equality, Aged Care