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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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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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I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There may have been a few who were shy with girls. You have to understand, this was the 1950s.
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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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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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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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