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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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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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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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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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