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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

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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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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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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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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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