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Holding the Man

by Timothy Conigrave · 1995

From the land of Down Under comes this true story about a male high school drama student who falls in love with the captain of the football team. Winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Nonfiction, HOLDING THE… more

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You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
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I guess the hardest thing is having so much love for you and it somehow not being returned. I develop crushes all the time, but that is just misdirected need for you. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned.
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She got into my head at the age when I was loading the operating system that forms self-image.
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I don't know if i belive in an afterlife. What if John's soul is just reabsorbed into the universe? I don't want him to become blended energy. I want him to be there waiting for me. I want us to be distinct entities.
If John's going mad, where does his soul go? Trapped inside his maddnes, or maybe floating free?

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From the land of Down Under comes this true story about a male high school drama student who falls in love with the captain of the football team. Winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Nonfiction, HOLDING THE MAN has been adapted into a play opening in America in September 2007. The playwright who adapted the book for stage refers to this a a memoir of striking and unapologetic honesty.

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1995
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