Career
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Higgins left Haverfordwest as a teenager due to feeling alienated by his sexuality. He lived in London and worked as a Hansard reporter in the House of Commons during the day and as a nightclub barman and disk jockey in the evenings. He travelled to New York and Amsterdam as a DJ in the 1970s.
Higgins collapsed at the nightclub Heaven while at work and was admitted to Street Thomas" Hospital, London where he died of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy on Sunday 4 July 1982.
Whitaker went on to study medicine and became a medical scientist working on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome related illness.
