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I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.
Kevin Sessums
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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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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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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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 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 was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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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 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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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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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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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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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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