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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.
Kevin Sessums
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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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 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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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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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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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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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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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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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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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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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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