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Kevin Sessums
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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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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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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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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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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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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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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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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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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'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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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 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 don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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 was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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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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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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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 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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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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