Kiyoshi Kuromiya

2022 - 6 - 4

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Born in an internment camp, the Japanese American was a civil rights, gay rights and anti-war activist most of his life.

He served as an openly gay delegate to the 1970 Black Panther Convention that endorsed the gay liberation struggle and founded the Philadelphia chapter of ACT UP, an organization focused on ending the AIDS crisis. His civil rights activism began in earnest during his first year at the University of Pennsylvania. He led a demonstration against the Vietnam War and participated in diner sit-ins protesting racial inequality. Kuromiya, a third-generation Japanese American, was born on May 9, 1943, at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, his family among the 120,000 Japanese Americans forced to relocate to internment camps during the war.

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Google Doodle pays tribute to Kiyoshi Kuromiya, LGBTQ rights activist (9to5Google)

The latest Google Doodle honors Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese-American activist for civil rights and gay liberation.

As for why Google chose this day to honor the respected activist, Kiyoshi Kuromiya was inducted into the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor on June 4, 2019. Four years later, after the Stonewall Riots, Kiyoshi Kuromiya helped cofound the Gay Liberation Front, a group meant to help men deal with the loneliness of having a different sexual identity. As such, Kuromiya was born inside of the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp.

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Koyoshi Kuromiya served as a personal assistant to Martln Luther King and advocated for compassionate HIV care and the use of medical marijuana.

The previous year he participated in the Congress for Racial Equality’s sit-ins at diners in Maryland, reported 9 to 5. Go to our Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. The United States of America.

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