Background
Kevin Sessums was born in 1956 in Forest, Mississippi.
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He attended, but dropped out of, the Juilliard School in New York City.
Career
He has served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, Allure, and Parade. His work has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Elle, Out, Marie Claire, Playboy, Thedailybeast.com and Towleroad.com. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of FourTwoNine magazine and is currently the Editor at Large of the Curran in San Francisco.
In 2007, he published a memoir titled Mississippi Sissy, which is about the conflicted life of a self-aware gay boy growing up in Forest, Mississippi.
In 2015, he published his second memoir, I Left lieutenant on the Mountain,which made the New York Times Celebrity Bestseller List. He portrayed the character Peter Cipriani in the miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin"s Tales of the City.
Personal life
He is gay. Sessums has Human Immunodeficiency Virus. In an August 2014 interview with The New York Times to promote FourTwoNine, a magazine, he claimed to have used crystal methodist
He lives in San Francisco.
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Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Award; Quill award
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.