Doodle of the Day: Google Celebrates the Life of Kiyoshi Kuromiya

This June 4, Google decided to celebrate the life of Kiyoshi Kuromiya, an activist for civil rights, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS education.

In 2019, Kuromiya was inducted into the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at Stonewall National Monument.

On the life of Kiyoshi Kuromiya

The activist was born on May 9, 1943 in Heart Mountain (Wyoming, United States), a government prison camp for Americans of Japanese origin.

Following the culmination of World War II, Kuromiya’s family moved to California where he recognized himself as a gay Asian-American man.

Several years later she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement to find her passion for activism.

He participated in the marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. In addition, he was close to the Black Panther Party.

Kuromiya was in Gay Pioneers, one of the first demonstrations organized for the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

He also spoke out against the war in vietnam when he was at his peak and designed an influential poster protesting youth recruitment.

At the beginning of the epidemic AIDS, Kuromiya tried to raise awareness about the virus. He later became self-taught on the subject after being diagnosed with the disease.

In 1989 he founded Critical Path Projectthe first organization to provide a 24-hour hotline for the gay community.

Kiyoshi Kuromiya was honored at the Walk of LGBTQ National Honor of the San Francisco Rainbow in 2018. He continued his whole life defending marginalized populations until 2000, the year in which he died.

Source: Elcomercio

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