Brian Wilmes, 45, died on this date in 1998 in a San Francisco hospital from injuries sustained when he was attacked while walking into a gay bar in that city's Mission district two days earlier. Convicted of his murder was Edgar Mora, 25. Mora received a three-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, and a two-year prison sentence for committing a hate crime against Mr. Wilmes.

In 2008 on this date in Escalon, California, Gary Huntley, 38, was arrested by San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies on suspicion of resisting arrest with injury to a peace officer and on suspicion of a hate crime in an incident near the 22300 block of South McBride Avenue involving two gay men, ages 42 and 29, because of their sexual orientation. Huntley’s brother, Kenneth Huntley, escaped from officers who used a dog and a Taser to subdue Gary.

In 2009 on this date in Newark, New Jersey, a gay couple, Joshua Kehoe, 25, and Bobby Daniel Caldwell, 36, both from Kearny, New Jersery, were attacked after they left a Britney Spears concert at the Prudential Center by a group of 12 to 20 youths who surrounded them, yelled anti-gay slurs at them, and beat and kicked them. Mr. Kehoe's mobile telephone was stolen in the attack. Mr. Caldwell was taken to University Hospital; his jaw broken in two places as a result of the hate crime attack, and his fractures required doctors to insert two metal plates and wires into his jaw.

In Washington Township, New Jersey (Gloucester County) on this date in 2010, a 16-year-old male high school student from Atlantic County, New Jersey grabbed a public address system telephone at the Wal-Mart store on Route 42 and announced to the entire store the following racist remark: "Attention, Wal-Mart customers: All black people, leave the store now." He was arrested and charged with bias intimidation (a hate crime) and harassment. If convicted, he could face a year in a juvenile detention center.