“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?” PeopleSeemsEasierGayDisappointedLarryGay PeopleKramerGay Friend Author:Kevin Sessums
“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.” WholeWantedNumbersGayPaperDisagreePapersLarryYaleKramer Author: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 or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.” PeopleWritingMindStillsProblemIssuesMetsGayAssumingSurfaceDividesLarryGay PeopleYaleKramer Author: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 when we were all sitting around on a roof one night and Larry turned to me and said, "You do know I'm gay, don't you?" There was a statement made. A declaration. We just never had really talked about it.” KnowsMadeSaidRememberNightTalkingGaySittingStatementsRoofSophisticatedDeclarationRemember WhenOne NightLarrySitting Around Author:Kevin Sessums
“[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.” ThinkingGayMaxLarryKramer Author:Kevin Sessums