“Carving into his arm? Not likely. An arm is where people write on themselves.
This stinks of hoax.”
You are joking, right???
He has no known enemies.
He wasn't attacked while out late at night coming out of a gay bar.
We are to believe that someone that he doesn't have an ongoing feud with, hid outside his home, just in case he came outside, and then was able to attack him without being seen at all. A rapist looking for a target of opportunity might be expected to grab a woman taking out the garbage, but this attack would have had to have been premeditated.
He was left with convenient physical evidence of a "hate crime" which doubles as a badge of honor. And as I said before, actual crimes like this generally attack the face of the individual. This arm thing is very odd. I would also like to know how it was "carved", an attacker would go deep, they wouldn't just be scratching the outer layer of skin.
Yes, it smells of a hoax. If there hadn't been so many other hoaxes uncovered that were very similar, I would probably be giving him the benefit of the doubt.