Holden Sheppard once hid his sexuality. Now he's far from invisible

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It's been a surreal homecoming for multi-award-winning author Holden Sheppard whose young adult novel Invisible Boys is about growing up as a young gay man in country Western Australia.

The modern-day Sheppard is a gym junkie and a punk-music loving, sensitive geek with a green mohawk ."I often feel so fraudulent when I'm asked about growing up gay in Gero because the reality is, and this is why the book is titled Invisible Boys, is I kept myself invisible, I didn't talk about my sexuality so I hid it completely," he said.Sheppard said other young men who were not able to hide their sexuality suffered in different ways, such as being bullied and tormented.

Sheppard puts his flamboyant exterior down to repressing not just his sexuality but his identity in the past. "Every tribe I … join, whether it's writers or geeks or punks or the gym bros, whoever I'm around, I'm always partly in that world.

 

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