JUNE 6, 2022
Hello, everyone!
This weekend, Google’s Pride Doodle featured civil rights, gay rights, and anti-war activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya, who was also born in an internment camp.
Kuromiya was a third-generation Japanese American who began his advocacy at the University of Pennsylvania, protesting against the war in Vietnam. Later on, he also worked with Martin Luther King Jr., and was later hospitalized with King after a voter registration march in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was also an active member in the gay rights movement, co-founding the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 after the Stonewall riots, and served as the openly gay delegate to the 1970 Black Panther Convention, which supported the gay rights movement. In 2000, Kuromiya died of AIDs complications after a long life of supporting HIV treatment and education.
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