Nationality American Name Kevin Sessums | Role Author | |
Born 1956 (age 58–59) Mississippi, U.S. Occupation Author, magazine editor Known for Author, Mississippi Sissy," "I Left It On the Mountain" Books Mississippi Sissy, I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir Awards Lambda Literary Award for Men's Memoir/Biography Nominations Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award | ||
Kevin sessums at the queer history of fashion symposium
Kevin Sessums (born 1956) is an American author, editor and actor.
Contents
- Kevin sessums at the queer history of fashion symposium
- Don t lecture me kevin sessums part 1
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Works
- References
Don t lecture me kevin sessums part 1
Early life
Kevin Sessums was born in 1956 in Forest, Mississippi. His brother is artist Dr. J. Kim Sessums of Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Sessums attended, but dropped out of, the Juilliard School in New York City.
Career
Sessums 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, Sessums published a memoir titled Mississippi Sissy, which is about the conflicted life of a self-aware gay boy growing up in Forest, Mississippi. It made the New York Times Bestseller list and won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Best Male Memoir. His audio recording of Mississippi Sissy was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award. In 2015, he published his second memoir, I Left It on the Mountain,which made the New York Times Celebrity Bestseller List.
Sessums portrayed the character Peter Cipriani in the miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.
Sessums was banned from posting on Facebook for 24 hours on December 29, 2016 after he compared the supporters of President-elect Donald Trump to a "nasty fascistic lot" in a post. The company subsequently issued an apology.
Personal life
Sessums is openly gay and he has HIV. In an August 2014 interview with The New York Times to promote FourTwoNine, a magazine, he claimed to have used crystal meth. He resides San Francisco.