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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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Kevin Sessums
Age: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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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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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 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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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 don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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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 don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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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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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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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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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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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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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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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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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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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