Two guys walked down the street and a group of 4 young people shouted 'gays' at them and verbal abuse. The two boys approached the group. One of the boys was beaten and the other was pushed, fell and broke his cheekbone.
Police now claim it wasn't anti gay violence, as the boys were neither a couple nor gay.
So apparently intent doesn't matter, as long as you were wrong and your victim wasn't gay, it wasn't anti gay violence, even though the violence clearly occurred because the group thought the boys were gay.
Do you agree? (I don't, if it wasn't obvious. Intent is what matters. If you beat someone because you think they are gay and you hate gays, it's anti gay violence in my book, whether the victim is actually gay or not.)