SMG posts links to a couple of right-wing blogs, so we have no idea what Big Ed actually said (not that this has slowed down discussion at all).
Gays were persecuted in the holocaust. So, were the disabled, people with learning disabilities, the emotionally disturbed or mentally impaired, Gypsies (Romani), political "dissidents" and Jews. It's estimated that Jews represented about one-half the toll of the holocaust but it's the only part of it we hear about. So, if Big Ed said gays were persecuted then, he right.
Maybe SMG is a gay holocaust denier. Or maybe he approves of persecuting gays, like they are doing in Russia and much of Africa.
Some Jewish organizations, to their discredit, do not want the holocaust associated with other victims, or the term "holocaust" associated with other genocide campaigns (such as the mass slaughter of Armenians by the Turks during World War I). They especially don't like the term being applied to Palestinians.
And wing-nuts will lie, distort or twist in their eagerness to discredit anybody they don't like.