Awful Quote by Kevin Sessums Download Open image “There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.” — Kevin Sessums ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awful Gay Ifs Time
The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way… — King Princess Copy Share Image
I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his outward appearance.… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I realized so much of my college years were spent not wanting to be gay. I just imagined how different it would be if… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable. — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a… — David Furnish Copy Share Image
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties. — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe." — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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.… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
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