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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: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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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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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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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.
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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.
Kevin Sessums
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 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 believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
Kevin Sessums
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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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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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
Kevin Sessums
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'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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