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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
Kevin Sessums
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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 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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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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Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
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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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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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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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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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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
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