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…

- Kevin Sessums

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

- Kevin Sessums

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

- Kevin Sessums

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…

- Kevin Sessums

[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 …

- 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

"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.

- 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

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

- Kevin Sessums