Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.
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
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
When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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
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…
I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about. - Kevin Sessums
I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
It's always been hard to be gay in Washington. - Kevin Sessums
It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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
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.
[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
[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 …
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 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.
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there. - Kevin Sessums
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.
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