Loaded (novel)

Loaded is the first novel by Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas. It was first published in 1995, and was adapted into the 1998 film Head On.

The novel describes twenty-four hours in the life of "Ari", a young gay Greek Australian. Ari travels across the city of Melbourne, Australia, taking speed, cocaine and smoking marijuana whenever presented to him.

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