He is caught between the conservatism of his Greek background and modern Australia amid his homosexual desire.

[4] The novel describes twenty-four hours in the life of Ari, an angst-ridden, young, gay second generation Greek Australian.

[1] Ari lives with his family in the Melbourne neighbourhood of Richmond and travels across taking speed, cocaine and marijuana whenever presented to him.

When Tsiolkas submitted the manuscript of Loaded to an independent publisher, it was rejected as "racist and homophobic".

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