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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was a city upon a hill, which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
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Weenie was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.
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If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There may have been a few who were shy with girls. You have to understand, this was the 1950s.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
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If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.
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I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.
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I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.
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I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
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Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.
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