Kevin Howard Scott Sessums (born March 28, 1956) is an American author, editor and actor.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of FourTwoNine magazine, as well as the Editor at Large of the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.
It made the New York Times Bestseller list and won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Best Male Memoir.
[8] Sessums has been criticized about the veracity of his writing, with Julia M. Klein of the Columbia Journalism Review calling his memoir "I Left It On The Mountain" "not a pretty book," further stating that "it’s a work that hints at the narrator’s unreliability," noting that he recalled with novelistic detail conversations for which there were no notes or journals.
Sessums also lost some credibility in the journalism world when he interviewed Ty Ross, the gay grandson of Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
In an interview written for POZ magazine, Sessums admires Goldwater's naked body, ultimately admitting that the two men slept together.