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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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You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember w…

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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.

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There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But…

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[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a …

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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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"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

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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 don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.

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