Check out 2:15-3:25 on this clip from the 1960 movie “Exodus”-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKP09W6-vU
Sal Mineo’s character(an Auschwitz survivor) admits what the Nazi guards did to him. I’m amazed they let that in a mainstream Hollywood film made when the Hays Code was still in effect.
Wikipedia - Sal Mineo - a little irony here
In the late 1960s Mineo became one of the first major actors in Hollywood to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality.[15] Despite this, he had several sexual relationships with women in his earlier years, most notably Jill Haworth.
Regarding Exodus, I started reading all of Leon Uris' historical novels in my senior year of HS.
Scott Lively’s and Kevin Abrams’ highly controversial book, The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party was written to counter historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which had been attempting since the 1970s to fabricate a “Gay Holocaust” equivalent to that suffered by the Jews in Nazi Germany.
Erik N. Jensen regards the authors' linkage of homosexuality and Nazism as the recurrence of a "pernicious myth", originating in 1930s attacks on Nazism by Socialists and Communists and "long since dispelled" by "serious scholarship".[6] Jensen sees the book as coming about in "the aftermath of an Oregon measure to repeal gay rights".[6]
Dorthe Seifert cites it as a response to increasing awareness of Nazi persecution of homosexuals.[7]
Christine L. Mueller argues that the historical record does not support Abrams' assertions.[8]
Bob Moser, writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the book was promoted by anti-gay groups and that historians agree its premise is "utterly false".[9]
If the SPLC condemns it, then The Pink Swastika must be closer to the truth!
Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian at New York University, wrote that the claim that gay people helped bring Nazism to Germany “is a flat-out lie.”[10] Zimmerman, points out that "Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis arrested roughly 100,000 men as homosexuals. Most convicted gays were sent to prison; between 5,000 and 15,000 were interned in concentration camps, where they wore pink triangles to signify their supposed crime."[10] He further notes, "To win their release from the camps, some gays were forced to undergo castration. Others were mutilated or murdered in so-called medical experiments by Nazi doctors, who insisted that homosexuality was a disease that could be 'cured'."[10] In addition, "Hitler authorized an edict in 1941 prescribing the death penalty [...] for SS and police members found guilty of gay activity."[10]