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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

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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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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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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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[ 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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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?
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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 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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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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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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1950s Yalie] Peter Wolf had a party at his house in the Hamptons.
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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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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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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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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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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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