What's your point, Queerty?

"He knows what my position is. I know what his position is," Mr. Smith said. "He looks at it as a religious matter, and I look at it as a legal matter."

The link to the Kramer vs. Yale story links to a Queerty article about Neil Patrick Harris. Might wanna fix that.

Yale's reasons for not accepting Kramer's money had nothing to do with homophobia and more to do with Kramer wanting to impose his vision of what gay studies should be onto the school. For better or worse, much of the gay and lesbian academia focuses its work on queer theory and gender, which Kramer is not a fan of. He believes the focus should be on gay history.I think your little summary is remarkably inaccurate.

Larry Kramer is not only pissed about Yale shutting down the program endowed with his name, he is also pissed that the money his brother gave to Yale went to teach gender and queer theory courses instead of catering to gay history courses alone.

In the speech he comes off as a bitter who makes questionable historical assertion based on his very loose definition and application of the term homosexual(ity) in his research (Kramer states that Bayard Rustin was assassinated and that George Washington was a mo.)

Yikes, I meant to say "bitter gay" in my last post.

all right girls, don't have a "gay panic":

>>And in discussing his differences on the issue with Mr. Flake, Mr. Smith likened his support of gay rights to former Gov. Mario Cuomo’s support for abortion rights even though Mr. Cuomo is Catholic and the Vatican opposes the practice. “I’m in office to do what I think is right,” he said.
Ultimately, Mr. Flake said, the decision to support same-sex marriage and the consequences that decision may produce belong to Mr. Smith. “I told him he has to live with his conscience,” Mr. Flake said.<<

@Hal:
The summary is not inaccurate, it is very clearly representative of what Kramer said. His interpretation of what Yale id is what's problematic, as you suggest, but it's not Queerty that's at fault for that.