Thomas Gumbleton Gumbleton has discussed how he had previously ignored the topic; however his brother's revelation, he said, forced him to consider the matter. Gumbleton has consistently been a supporter of New Ways Ministry and has also called for homosexual priests and bishops to "come out" and be truthful to themselves and others. During his time as bishop, Gumbleton wore a mitre at a church service on which were symbols of the cross, a rainbow and a pink triangle. The pink triangle caused particular complaints by some due to its history as a symbol of gay rights, after its use to identify
Pink triangle Richard Plant – author of "The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals –" gives a rough estimate of the number convicted for homosexuality "between 1933 to 1944 at between 50,000 and 63,000". After the camps were liberated at the end of the Second World War, many of the prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the Allied-established Federal Republic of Germany. An openly homosexual man named Heinz Dörmer, for instance, served 20 years total, first in a Nazi concentration camp and then in the jails of the new Republic. The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality from