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I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.
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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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Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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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.
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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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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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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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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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I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.
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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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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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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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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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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
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I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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