On this date in 2005 in Red Creek, Kentucky, about eight miles south of Pikeville, three Black Pikeville College students discovered an apparently deliberately set fire at their home. Quintin Collins, 22, of Wando, South Carolina, Kurtis Ellison, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, and Michael Shepperd, 22, of Ellensboro, North Carolina, football players for Pikeville College, put out the fire, and later Bobby Gibson Jr., 33, of Shelbiana, Kentucky, was charged and eventually criminally cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident. However, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights filed civil charges against Gibson, who is white, and a judge found Gibson guilty of setting fire to a mason jar in attempts of burning the students' home, and in 2007 Gibson was ordered to pay $80,000 to the students.

In Boulder, Colorado on this date in 2007, Colorado University gave a summary of suspension notice to Adam Perez, 21, who was a senior who had been majoring in biology, and to Eric Schorling, 21, who was a junior who had been an anthropology major, for their possible involvement in a hate crime assault occurring the previous night at 10th and Pearl Streets in Boulder. The two were charged in the attack on two men, one of whom is gay and who at the time of the attack had his arm around his male friend. Mr. Bronson Hilliard, a spokesman for Colorado University, indicated that due to what Perez and Schorling have been accused of the university has the right to suspend the students. Hilliard pointed out that although Perez and Schorling were not convicted of any crime at the time of their suspension, the university's burden of proof is not as high as a court's burden of proof, and that the university has the right to respond to alleged hate crimes. Schorling and Perez both pleaded No Contest to one count each of a bias-motivated crime in Boulder County District Court in May and June, 2007, respectively. Neither criminal received jail time for their crimes, and if both adhere to the conditions outlined by the Court for a one-year timeframe, the hate crimes will be expunged from their criminal records. If not, he could face a prison sentence of two to six years. A No Contest finding prevents Perez and Schorling from implicating themselves if civilly sued.

After leaving a birthday party on 90th Street in the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York, on this date in 2011 a heterosexual Equadorean-American man who had recently graduated from high school, Anthony Collao, 18—originally from Bethpage, New York on Long Island, but who was living with his girlfriend in Woodhaven—was chased down the street allegedly by five teenagers who are said to have screamed anti-gay slurs at him. He was then fatally stomped and beaten with a chrome bat and a cane on a sidewalk by his assailants—who had crashed the gay-hosted party Mr. Collao had attended, flashed gang signs, broke windows, spewed anti-gay slurs, and scrawled slurs on the walls at the party—in what police have called an anti-gay hate crime. Mr. Collao, who suffered severe head injuries, was rushed to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where he died of his injuries on March 14, 2011, after being taken off of life-support. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, "It appears to have all the elements of a hate crime and now a hate crime homicide." Arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of manslaughter as a hate crime, gang assault as a hate crime, and criminal possession of a weapon on the same date as Mr. Collao's death were: Nolis Ogando, 17, whose residence was reported by various press sources to be in the Flushing and the Ridgewood neighborhoods of Queens (we understand he is actually from Ridgewood); Christopher Lozada, 17, whose residence was reported by the press to be in Flushing but also Ridgewood and Woodhaven; Luis Tabales, 15, whose residence was reported by the press to be Woodhaven but also the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens (we understand he is from Richmond Hill); and, Alex Velez, 16, whose residence was reported by different press sources to be Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, and The Bronx (we understand he is from Woodhaven). When Ogando, Lozada, Tabales, and Velez were arrested, they allegedly were covered in blood and had Mr. Collao's Atlanta Braves baseball cap. On March 16, 2011, the fifth suspect, Calvin Peitri, 17, of Woodhaven, was charged with manslaughter and gang assault as a hate crime. One news source said the hate crime charge against Peitri was quickly dismissed as prosecutors continued their investigation. However, on June 23, 2011, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said the six defendants, including Peitri and a sixth suspect from Queens, had their charges upgraded after new evidence from witnesses emerged: Nolis Ogando, 18, Alex Velez, 17, Christopher Lozada, 17, Calvin Pietri, 17, Luis Tabales, 16, Jonathan Echevarria, 16, of Brooklyn (who was arrested early in June, 2011) were each charged in a 21-count indictment that includes second-degree murder as a hate crime. If convicted as charged, each defendant could get 25 years to life in prison (the minimum sentences they face if convicted as charged is 20 years in prison). All were held without bail.

On this date in 2011 at the BP gas station at 180 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. in south Atlanta, Georgia, a 22-year-old transgendered woman from Baltimore, Maryland, was robbed of her purse and assaulted allegedly by an unnamed 16-year-old male while another male held her down and pulled her hair. The 16-year-old was arrested and charged with simple battery and robbery. Following his arrest, he was transported to the Fulton County Juvenile facility. Hate crime charges cannot be filed against the teenaged male, despite the report that he called his victim a "faggot," and said to her, "Are you even a woman?", because Georgia does not have a hate crime law.