Kevin Sessums

When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people…

— Kevin Sessums

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

— Kevin Sessums

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

— Kevin Sessums

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

— Kevin Sessums

People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking…

— Kevin Sessums

There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown…

— Kevin Sessums

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured…

— 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…

— Kevin Sessums

In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching…

— Kevin Sessums

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

— Kevin Sessums

Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

— Kevin Sessums

I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot…

— Kevin Sessums

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

— Kevin Sessums

I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real…

— Kevin Sessums

[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us,…

— Kevin Sessums

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

— Kevin Sessums

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

— Kevin Sessums

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

— Kevin Sessums

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas,…

— Kevin Sessums

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those…

— Kevin Sessums

[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great…

— Kevin Sessums

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

— 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…

— Kevin Sessums

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface…

— Kevin Sessums

My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had…

— Kevin Sessums