Fascist Aesthetic?

The German painter Norbert Bisky paints young blond boys with blue eyes and bare torsos. His work is widely regarded as provocative because it would refer to the aesthetic ideals of the German fascist regime. Blond hair and blue eyes, maybe, but young boys without T-shirts? I would say that the critics that hold these opinions are unconsciously influenced by the connection that we too easily make between homosexuality and fascism. If fascists were gay, they might have idolized Bisky's young 'gods' (just as Germaine Greer does, by the way, in her The Beautiful Boy), fact of the matter is that, although undoubtedly some Nazi's were gay, they actively persecuted gays, so the link that is so often and easily made is quite absurd. Bisky himself comments that his paintings are inspired by the East German communist youth groups that he witnessed as a young boy.