Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
Kevin Sessums
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
Author
Writer
Mississippi
United States
Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
Charles
Gay
Thinks
Thinking
Gaulle
Kramer
Max
Larry
More quotes by Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
[Calvin Trillin] was very shoe, which means he was a big jock, a big deal.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
Kevin Sessums
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
Kevin Sessums
There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
Shoe just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.
Kevin Sessums
I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
Kevin Sessums
Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
Kevin Sessums
I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
Kevin Sessums
Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.
Kevin Sessums
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.
Kevin Sessums
It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
Kevin Sessums