Do tell??!

A professional footballer has been found guilty of making a "homophobic" gesture to a section of the crowd at a match he was involved in.  We're not told what the gesture was, but I would dearly like to know - I'm still trying to make sense of the "quenelle" gesture which got Nicolas Anelka the sack recently.  We seem to be getting into dangerous waters where if words or gestures are "perceived" by somebody to be racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever, then that becomes prima facie evidence that they are, and that strikes me as giving far too much power to people seeking to promote a particular agenda - I've mentioned before that there are those who go out deliberately looking for things to be offended by, so they can then complain about being offended.  Mary Whitehouse's soul goes marching on!