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]
Our tent leader was a German. An assassin's face, fleshy lips, hands resembling a wolf's paws. The camp's food had agreed with him; he could hardly move, he was so fat. Like the head of the camp, he liked children. Immediately after our arrival, he had bread brought for them, some soup and margarine. (In fact, this affection was not entirely altruistic; there existed here a veritable traffic of children among homosexuals