Quotes by Kevin Sessums

Kevin Sessums

“Shoe” just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

Jocks

Matter

Shoes

“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.

Different

Names

Yale

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was “a city upon a hill,” which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

America

Cities

Men

[Calvin Trillin] was very “shoe,” which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

Jocks

Mean

Shoes

[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 big difference.

Differences

Thinking

Writing

[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, “I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn’t do it this year.”

President

Yale

Years

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush’s Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan’s speech, which wasn’t allowed.

Mad

President

Yale

[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, “You betrayed me, Calvin.” And I said, “I resent that. I was against you from the beginning.”

Betrayed

Fall

Kramer

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

Gay

Max

Thinking

[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn’t have published ‘Remembering Denny’ . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that’s why he committed suicide.

Cutting

Suicide

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Quotes by Kevin Sessums

Kevin Sessums

“Shoe” just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

“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.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was “a city upon a hill,” which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

[Calvin Trillin] was very “shoe,” which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

[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 big difference.

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush’s Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan’s speech, which wasn’t allowed.

[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, “You betrayed me, Calvin.” And I said, “I resent that. I was against you from the beginning.”

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

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