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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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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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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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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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 could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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