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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.
Kevin Sessums
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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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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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 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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To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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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