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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.
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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 could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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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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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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
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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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I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.
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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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