Tourist Attraction, Homoeroticism, and Latinos

I am currently watching the Outer Limits episode Tourist Attraction, from the original series. What struck me as very unusual about the episode is that there is a small scene, almost a throw-away, in which a Latino dictator critiques Ralph Meeker's adventurer character for his hypermasculinity, saying that among Latinos it is quite common for men to show physical affection without this being seen as a sign of homoerotic behaviour. I don't know if the episode is taking shots at homophobia or shots at Latinos, but either way its a pretty risky line to put into an early sixties TV series. As usual, the original Outer Limits proves itself to be ahead of its time.