Our "This Date in Hate" calendar also shows that there are many different types of hate crimes, hate crime victims, and hate crime perpetrators (convicted and alleged). We firmly believe that it is counterproductive to our goal of increasing awareness about hate crimes, counterproductive to our goal of unifying all kinds of people against all hate crimes, and counterproductive to society for us to categorize hate crimes by type of victim. Gays, for example, should be just as outraged when a hate crime happens because of someone's race or religion as they would be when learning about an anti-gay hate crime. African-Americans, Christians, and Muslims, for example, should be just as likely to publically denounce a sexual orientation-based hate crime as they would be to denounce one where the victim is black, Christian, or Muslim. Our "This Date in Hate" calendar format allows people to become unified against all hate crime acts precisely because it does not separate or segregate classes of people. Also, people have personal connections to specific dates of the year, such as birthdays or anniversaries, so a calendar format of hate crime events helps people to become personally connected to hate crimes that have occurred on dates personally important to them.

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*The only exception to this is December 25th, Christmas Day. We have yet to learn of a hate crime-related event happening on this day.