Nick Cook > Quotes

“According to Paul van Reyk, whenever the AIDS Quilt was displayed Morgan exclaimed, ‘Oh God, not the fucking Doona of Death again!”
― Nick Cook, Fighting For Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS

“The passing of Mardi Gras artistic director Peter Tully was marked by a full-page advertisement in Sydney Star Observer. It was mostly blank, with his small photograph dwarfed by the huge words, ‘MOODY BITCH DIES OF AIDS’.”
― Nick Cook, Fighting For Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS

“Politicians had only just decided that homosexuality wasn’t a crime, while doctors had only recently realised it wasn’t a mental illness. They had no authority when telling gay men what to do in the bedroom.”
― Nick Cook, Fighting For Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS

“Of special note are Nic Parkhill, Bill Whittaker AM, David Buchanan, Don Baxter, Ross Duffin, Paul van Reyk, Robert French, Anne Malcolm, Bill Bowtell, Brent Mackie, Graeme Head, Gray Sattler, Greg Tillett, Julie Bates, Kirsty Machon, Lyle Chan, Phillip Keen, Robert Griew, Sara Lubowitz, Sue Kippax AO, Terry Goulden, Reg Domingo, Nikki Lusk, Paul O’Beirne and Julie Williams. Extra special thanks to Jacki for your unfaltering support, along with Joni and Sam for your limitless love.”
― Nick Cook, Fighting For Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS