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LaFrance said that originally, Kramer wanted to endow a professorship strictly for gay studies, excluding lesbian and other queer studies from the gift...
LaFrance said she felt that having only one permanent professorship in a field can cause a single voice to dominate the campus-a detriment in an emerging field like queer studies. Instead, she said Yale would continue to fund a semi-yearly fellowship in gay and lesbian studies...
...controversy over Kramer's gift to Yale, which LaFrance called the "Kramer fiasco," has raised the question of what kinds of programs other schools, including Harvard, should offer in queer studies...
...There is very, very, very little movement on the part of the Faculty to have a program in queer studies," Epps said...
That myopic perspective exploded on Feb. 7, 1999, when queer politics suddenly became a lot more personal. “Did you hear about that crazy kid at MIT who killed himself yesterday?” asked a friend on the way to Annenberg that evening. “He was from your town, so I thought you might have known...