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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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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 have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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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I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
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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 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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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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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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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 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 don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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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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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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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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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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