Nevertheless, homosexual rights activists found the myth useful because it enabled them to portray homosexuals as victims. The names of various Jewish homosexuals who had been sent to concentration camps were placed on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and similar sites of a popular, emotive nature to give a misleading impression that the inmates were there because they were homosexual rather than because they were Jewish.<ref>http://www.ushmm.org/</ref> | Nevertheless, homosexual rights activists found the myth useful because it enabled them to portray homosexuals as victims. The names of various Jewish homosexuals who had been sent to concentration camps were placed on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and similar sites of a popular, emotive nature to give a misleading impression that the inmates were there because they were homosexual rather than because they were Jewish.<ref>http://www.ushmm.org/</ref> |