Today's bit of recovered history:
Alarmed by the passage of the new law against sodomy, Whyte wrote to Stalin directly, offering a case for why homosexuality should not be outlawed in a Communist society. In the letter, Whyte relies on a combination of Marxist-Leninist theory and scientific theories of “constitutional homosexuality”; he uses himself as an example of a homosexual who is also a good Communist. Stalin read Whyte’s letter, marked it with the words “an idiot and a degenerate,” and had it archived. When it was finally published by a Russian journal in 1993, it was with the sub-heading “Humor from the Secret Archives.”
You can read the whole letter over here. In a postcript, Mr Whyte notes that his membership of the All-Union Communist Party was on hold until its latest purge had been completed and that he had sent a copy of the letter to the comrades at OGPU. Nothing more seems to be known of him.