Twin brother pays tribute to Malcolm Cole's 1988 Captain Cook at Sydney Mardi Gras parade

WARNING: This story features the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person, which has been used with the permission of his family.He was in his twin brother's house in Far North Queensland surrounded by family who loved him, bathed him and cared for him even after society and past friends had shunned him.

Panos Couros was a young gay man who took part in the protest and later met Malcolm at a Mardi Gras workshop. "As kids, we were very close … we used to play tricks on lots of people because we were so identical," Robert says.They had six brothers and three sisters. The family were heavily involved in the local church. Robert went to Sunday school with his now-wife Phillipa.

At 19 the twin brothers moved to Sydney. Malcolm fell in love with dance, touring with the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and teaching in schools across Sydney. Malcolm continued to encounter the community's fear of HIV when he moved to Townsville to live with Robert. "This is how they treated these people back in those days … they never made it easy for people who had HIV," Robert says.At Sydney's White Bay Power Station, the final installation for the Biennale of Sydney is being completed. Among artworks from around the world hangs a 20-metre-tall mural of Malcolm dressed in the Captain Cook costume.

"Even today, there isn't that many stories of queer Black people being told within the media, and for the time there wouldn't have been that much attention for Malcolm's story."Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain First Nations Curatorial Fellow at the Biennale of Sydney."That doesn't surprise me at all," Tony says.

"You've got to accept it — the history is there. It's in black and white … we're dying faster than the wider community."

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