![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2015 UK singer Sam Smith praised the memoir on their Instagram account: "The most powerful thing for me was how this book captured what it’s like to grow up gay and all those confusing scary and amazing moments I had coming out and realising who I was…this book and film pretty much changed my life". Holding the Man recreates that relationship. So began a relationship that was to last for 15 years, a love affair that weathered disapproval, separation and, ultimately death. ![]() In 2009 Penguin reissued it with an orange and white cover as part of their Popular Penguin series. At an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. It has been reprinted fourteen times and was listed as one of the "100 Favourite Australian Books" by the Australian Society of Authors for its 40th anniversary in 2003. It was described as a "Romeo and Juliet for the AIDS era ", a "seminal account of the AIDS pandemic", "soul-shaking" and "one of Australia’s most beloved non-fiction books". Holding the Man was published in February 1995 by Penguin Books in Australia just a few months after Conigrave's death, and has since been published in Spain and North America. Caleo was captain of the school football team and the book's title " holding the man" refers to a transgression that incurs a penalty in Australian rules football. ![]()
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