· Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Kiyoshi Kuromiya Born

resistance

Kiyoshi Kuromiya, born this day at the Heart Mountain concentration camp, became a civil-rights, anti-war, gay-liberation, and pioneering AIDS activist-co-founding Philadelphia's Gay Liberation Front and the Critical Path AIDS project. (Anchored on his birth anniversary.)

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • incarceration
Event type
  • birth
Identity lens
  • LGBTQ

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