Ernst Rahm was one of Hitlers early supporters and was dragged out of a bed he was sharing with another man that night.
The homosexuality of Roehm as partial justification for the night of the long knives was pure politics designed to calm a nervous public. Hitler and Roehm may well have played with each others flute.
That nazis sent some classes of homosexuals to the camps means little. Homosexuals come in many stripes. The skinhead, death metal homosexuals are quite ruthless towards the flowershop ballet dancing type homosexual.
Good points and perspective, fso301.