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murder of Robert Hillsborough
Since 1977
On June 22, 1977, Robert Hillsborough, a 33-year-old American gay man, was murdered in San Francisco by John Cordova, a 19-year-old from Daly City. Cordova and three other young men followed Hillsborough to his apartment in the Mission and stabbed him fifteen times in the face and chest.
Cordova was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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On June 22, 1977, Robert Hillsborough, a 33-year-old American gay man, was murdered in San Francisco by John Cordova, a 19-year-old from Daly City.
Though Hillsborough was the nineteenth gay man to be murdered in the United States in 1977, it was his death which galvanized political mobilization amongst the LGBT community to fight for human rights.
Cordova and a 21-year-old were charged with murder; the first of them was sentenced to 10 years in prison, the second was acquitted, the other two members of the group were not charged as witnesses testified that they did not get out of the car.
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