Australian actor and memoirist Timothy Conigrave was BOTD in 1959. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended a Catholic high school, where he met his future life partner John Caleo. He and Caleo moved to Sydney, where Conigrave studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, working largely in fringe theatre. Conigrave and Caleo were both diagnosed HIV+ in 1985, living relatively healthily until 1990, when Caleo was diagnosed with an AIDS-related cancer. Conigrave nursed Caleo through his illness, while dealing with his own deteriorating health, until Caleo’s death in 1992, aged 31. Conigrave died in 1994, aged 34. He is best known for his memoir Holding the Man, published posthumously in 1995, chronicling his open relationship with Caleo, his guilt over his and Caleo’s HIV diagnosis and Caleo’s death. The book became an international bestseller, winning the United Nations Award for Non-Fiction, and was successfully adapted for the stage. A film adaptation, starring Ryan Corr as Conigrave and Craig Stott as Cole, was released in 2015.