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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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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
United States
Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
Yale
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Tried
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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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[ 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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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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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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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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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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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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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 don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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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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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