English Defence League: EDLLGBTOD

There's an article by Gary Younge in today's Guardian on "the far right's use of homophobia as a stick with which to beat Islam."
He's right that non-Islamic cultures like our own beloved country are hardly free from homophobia, and that our homo tolerance (never mind acceptance) is a relatively recent phenomenon, and one that is still contended and is far from stable.
But Younge tries to conflate too many issues together, something summed up in his own summary; "Why we cannot allow an issue as important as gay rights to be snatched by the right as a stick with which to beat Islam, immigration and the left" [Emphasis added].
Eh?
Yes, Islamophobes often cite examples of its homophobia, but I don't get how left-bashing fits into this.
He also argues that; "Given fascism's history of violent and outspoken homophobia, the news that the EDL [English Defence League] would have a 115-strong lesbian, gay and transgender wing would appear, at the very least, incongruous."
This figure comes from another article in The Guardian in May.
Gay men and fascism have often got into bed together, but there is no EDL LGBT "wing", just a Facebook group.
Whilst it's flattering that Gary Younge had presumably previously thought that lesbians and gay men were the only social groups in the entire history of the world to be entirely free from bigotry - or to show such ideological dissonance - any Facebook group should surely be seen by journalists as serious a political barometer as the one "Jeremy Clarkson should be Prime Minister", which currently has over half-a-million "members".