What should I do if someone in the street makes an aggressive homophobic comment towards me?

What should I do if someone in the street makes an aggressive homophobic comment towards me?

I think, if someone makes an aggressive homophobic comment towards you on the street, don't rise to the bait and try not to escalate the situation any more than has already happened. I think it's particularly important that you do report such an incident to the police, because we take such incidences of aggressive homophobia extremely seriously and are determined to bring people who commit such crimes to justice. We can only do that if we have people willing to tell us about such offences and help us prosecute people. We take account of the intelligence picture around the area that we're going to patrol. If we are unaware that there are homophobic incidents occurring in a particular area, then that would obviously diminish the opportunities of us being able to target our patrols to those areas.