Ernst Röhm the Gay Martyr?

In our sexually liberated times there seems to be a weird little quest going on amongst certain "gay activists" to rehabilitate Ernst Röhm, of all people, and turn him into a gay martyr - the first "victim", presumably, of some sort of Nazi "gay holocaust". I just came across this, which annoyed me, so I posted a comment:

Yes, there's a slight misreading of history going on here. Röhm and his followers were murdered in the so-called Night of the Long Knives as part of a power struggle within the Nazi Party. It certainly wasn't because they were gay. (Have a quick check on Wikipedia.) As for the Nazi "persecution" of homosexuals, whereas it is true that male sodomy was illegal under the Third Reich (although lesbianism was not), it's also true that it had been illegal before Hitler came to power and continued to be illegal after Germany was "liberated" by the Allies. It only stopped being a criminal offence in the 1960s. Yes, homosexuals were sent to concentration camps, but they were sent there as sex criminals, not because they were members of a particular group such as Jews or Jehovah's Witnesses.