In the period when the movies were set Italians, Irish and Jews were "minorities."
But if you want to include the mob's selling drugs to Harlem and owning gay clubs that was part of the history.
And as for gay, did you miss this?
I actually agree with your points but by token I meant “non applicable for the sake of storyline”. Which happens all the time in period pictures.
The kiss was symbolic not homosexual. For centuries there were man kisses that were symbolic. Putin kisses a childs stomach during a church mass every year. Nothing homo about it except those ill informed and wishing to include their own homoerotic fantasy to it.
By token I meant non applicable at all to the story line which is always 100% obvious.