These were probably heterosexual men who intended to gang-rape the strangers who had entered their city. In that culture, given the fact that Lot, also an outsider, had pressed his hospitality on the angels, the inhabitants of Sodom may well have suspected them of being spies.
Kuna uwezekano kuwa hawa walikuwa watu wa jinsia ya kawaida ambao walikuwa wakikusudia kuwabaka wageni waliokuwa wameingia mjini pao.