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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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[ 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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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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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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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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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?
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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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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 believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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 could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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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.
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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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