It’s just entertaining bullshit, from an era when weirdness was unusual and hard to find. The positive impact of Burroughs, over the years, has been in things like the rise of harm reduction and decline of punishment in the War on Drugs, and of course he was Out and Proud before almost anybody. We take that stuff for granted now, but his sins, crimes, and other shortcomings are all the more glaring without that kind of context.
