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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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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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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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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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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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[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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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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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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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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