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through an open car window. When he backed out of the parking space and headed towards home, the attackers also followed them in their car. As
Hillsborough and Taylor got out of the car outside their home in the Mission District, they were attacked at the corner of Nineteenth and Lexington Streets. Taylor escaped over a high fence, but Hillsborough was knocked to the ground and beaten, and Cordova stabbed him fifteen times in the face and chest. The attackers shouted "Faggot! Faggot! Faggot!" and "This one’s for Anita!", referring to activist
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On the evening of June 21, 1977, Hillsborough went to a disco with his boyfriend, Jerry Taylor. Around midnight, the two left the club and drove to a drive-in hamburger joint, where a group of youths recognized them as gay. The four young men verbally attacked them and hit
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