On this date in 2001 in Middleburg, Pennsylvania, brothers Todd Clinger, 18, and Troy Clinger, 20, both of Middleburg, severely beat their neighbor, Michael Auker, 41, after the three were drinking on the Clingers' porch and after a perceived sexual advance by Auker towards Todd. The beating left Mr. Auker, who was dragged back to his trailer and left for dead, in coma for nearly two months. The attack disabled Mr. Auker, who suffered permanent damage; he suffered impairments with speech, walking, using his left arm and hand, and with short-term memory. Todd Clinger pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit third-degree murder, and Troy Clinger pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter. The two had planned to use the so-called "gay panic" defense, despite having gone into their home to talk to each other immediately prior to beating Mr. Auker, and despite Troy Clinger's then-fiancée, Nicki Lee White, who stated that the two brothers planned to lure Mr. Auker to a place where they could beat him up and kill him. In 2004 Todd, then 23, won an appeal in Superior Court after a judge refused to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit murder. However, this charge was dropped and Todd Clinger pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. He was given 14 to 40 years in prison. Todd and Troy's father, Gary Clinger, was sentenced to five years in prison for failing to help Mr. Auker. Gary Clinger helped Troy drag Mr. Auker, who was rendered unconscious, back to Mr. Auker’s trailer. Mr. Auker was found 35 hours later by a co-worker.

In Maryland on this date in 2007, the state's Senate approved a bill that would make Maryland the second state (behind Maine) to add homeless people to the groups protected under hate crimes laws. The legislation was approved 38 to 9 by the Maryland Senate, and it is to go before the Maryland House of Delegates for approval.

In Richmond, Virginia on this date in 2008, someone simulated a lynching by hanging a black doll by a noose in a small studio theater at the University of Richmond. Walter Schoen, the chairman of the university's department of theater and dance, discovered the hanging doll. University of Richmond are said to be investigating.

In a federal courtroom in Santa Ana, California, on this date in 2009, domestic terrorist, Kevin James, 32, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to conspiracy to wage war against the United States with plans to specifically target Los Angeles International Airport, Army recruiting stations, a military base and the Israeli Consulate, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. James, who founded the radical Islamic hate group, Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, is a former gang member who at the time of his sentencing had spent most of his life in prison. While in prison James recruited Levar Washington, 30, of Torrance, California, who upon his parole recruited two other men, Gregory Patterson and Hammad Samana of Inglewood to raise money for the hate group's planned terroristic attacks by committing robberies. Washington was sentenced in 2007 to 22 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to wage war against the United States and using a firearm to further a crime of violence. In 2008 Levar Washington was sentenced to an additional 22 years in state prison on state charges for robbing a gas station. Also in 2008, Gregory Patterson was sentenced to twelve years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to the same charges. Hammad Samana remains awaiting trial; his court date is set for July 14, 2009.

On this date in 2009 in the 2500 block of Clifton Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio, two University of Cincinnati students were allegedly attacked by Ethan Kirkwood, 20, of Anderson Township, and Matthew Kafagolis, 20, also Anderson Township, because one of the college students is gay. The gay man was allegedly called anti-gay slurs and then knocked to the ground, kicked and punched after Kirkwood and Kafagolis found out he was gay. The other victim was attempting to defend his friend when he was physically assaulted. Kirkwood and Kafagolis were originally arrested on two counts of felonious assault; however, those charges were reduced to two counts of misdemeanor assault two weeks after the attack. Because neither Cincinnati nor the state of Ohio had hate crime laws which included sexual orientation as a protected category at the time of the assault on the two college students, this attack could not have been prosecuted as a hate crime.

In Portland, Oregon on this date in 2009, a Native American gay man, Vern Willson, was assaulted in an anti-Native American hate crime attack at the Goose Hollow MAX Station as he waited for a train with two friends. Mr. Willson, who suffered a broken jaw in the incident, said two white men each about 30 years of age hurled anti-Native American slurs at him and then assaulted him after a drum he was carrying startled the two assailants' girlfriends' dogs. This was the first of two hate crime attacks at the Goose Hollow MAX Station targeting Native Americans in less than a month (see "April 2" for information about the other incident).