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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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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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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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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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 write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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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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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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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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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 was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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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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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.
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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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