<<Have you some notion of how many people we are talking about?>>
Yeah, roughly I'd say it's about equal to the total number of gay people in California. I think every gay man who is visibly or otherwise identifiable as such, as well as every straight man who may appear to some to be gay, has probably experienced more than one physical attack, threat or verbal attempt at intimidation or humiliation. Although I would expect that California would probably be marginally more tolerant than the rest of North America.