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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: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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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 not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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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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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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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 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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[ 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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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 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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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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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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 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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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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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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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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To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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