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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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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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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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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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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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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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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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
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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 believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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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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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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