BHM asks, “ How does eliminating whatever LGBTQ funding, that can be identified, diminish the funds available for Cancer Research? "

Pay attention. He just told you what “indirect costs” are. When you apply for a federal grant (or for pretty much any kind of grant, which I did numerous times during 39 years as a research scientist at a major university), “direct costs” do not include maintaining capital equipment, utilities, nonresearch support staff, and the like. Rather than attempt the impossible task of allocating all of those very real costs across potentially hundreds of grants, they’re folded into indirect costs according to mutually agreeable rules. It doesn’t include “LGBTQ agendas” or any such bullshit.

These actions are part of a know-nothing campaign of revenge and retribution against centers of expertise and excellence, period.