It is at the top of the cited article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hm_scandal

"Beginning in April 1931, the SPD newspaper Münchener Post published a series of front-page stories about alleged homosexuality in the SA, which turned out to be based on forgeries. SPD leaders set out to obtain authentic evidence of Röhm's sexuality and, if possible, convict him under Paragraph 175. Röhm was tried five times, but never convicted. During the German presidential election in March 1932, the SPD released a pamphlet edited by ex-Nazi Helmuth Klotz [de] with Röhm's letters to Heimsoth. This second round of disclosures sparked a plot by some Nazis to murder Röhm, which fell through and resulted in additional negative press for the party."

It cannot be more public than that. The Social Democrats used the anti-gay paragraph.

Another known gay Nazi was Rudolf Hess:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/10/opinion/l-hess-homosexual...

And Klaus Mann wrote a novel about German actor and director Gustaf Gründgens, famous for his Mephisto role in Goethe's Faust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(novel)

"The author Hermann Kesten suggested that he write a novel of a homosexual careerist in the Third Reich, with the director of the state theatre Gustaf Gründgens as a subject matter. Gründgens's homosexuality was widely known."

The whole selective persecution of gays began after Röhm's paramilitary SA surged to 4,000,000 members in 1934, and a couple of people including Himmler intrigued against him.

People like Hess and Gründgens were never touched or exposed even though most people knew.

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