Keep in mind, too, that Hitler wasn't responding to them and their degeneracy when he sent in Himmler and his assassins. Rather, it was a Machiavellian play for support of the army officer corps, which Hitler needed desperately, was critical to his establishing a regime, and which was out of reach as long as Roehm and his sadomasochistic stalwart New Men were maxing out the army's gag reflex. So Hitler made the SA general staff go away.
The point I was making though, is that homosexuals (effeminate males for the most part,) are the most vindictive and sadistic people I have ever met, bar none. We have all heard the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” but I beg to differ. When I was in college, I had professors who were openly gay, and believe me, what I saw and heard, the lengths they will go for revenge or to attract another male, straight or gay, is so far beyond anything anyone could call normal, all you could do was pray they didn’t set their sights on you.