The National Socialist League had chapters in various parts of California, and implied in their mass mailing on July 4, 1978, that they had established an offshoot organization in Manhattan.
", an ironic reference to the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in Cabaret, a 1972 film about the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany, popular with gay men for its inclusion of LGBT characters.
[8] In 1977, NSL applied for a free table at the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade and was refused, marking a break from event organizer Christopher Street West's policy of total non-exclusion.
[9] The magazine contained Nazi rhetoric as well as drawings of scantily clad Schutzstaffel soldiers with swastikas covering their genitals to emphasize the "sexual trip" described by the recruiting pitch.
[10] The NSL stirred a controversy in 1983 when it attempted to market the infamous 1930s Nazi anti-Semitic film Jud Süß ("Süss the Jew") which had been pirated by the group.