For one these guys were not out on the rampage looking for a homosexual to kill! They attempted to rob two other guys the same night and pistol whipped them. One had a huge gash on his head.
So they go to a bar and like a prostitute offering herself sexually to someone of this mind set, she may very well have been beaten to death also. Mathew approached these guys at the bar and solicited sex from them. I wonder if he did not do this if he would still be alive today and these guys would have found another victim to rob and beat.
And no I do not think that they would have done what they did to him the way they did. Some guys without there mentality get ticked when some dude tries to hit on them. As a matter of fact most men I know would not take it well.
MCD