Kiyoshi yoshida biography of martin luther

Back in 2010, I founded an organization called The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, which facilitated exhibitions on LGBTQ+ history in non-traditional venues.

One of my favorite parts of Pop-Up was getting to learn about local struggles, heroes, artists, and organizers in every place we visited. These were people of such prominence, heart, talent, courage, and/or ability that I was often gobsmacked never to have heard their names before.

Kiyoshi Kuromiya — AIDS activist, black power organizer, writer, right hand man to Buckminster Fuller, Scrabble champion, and gay rights pioneer — was one such person.

When the Pop-Up Museum came to the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia (which houses Kuromiya’s archive), I was introduced to his work by an incredible short film created by Che Gossett & Luce Capco Lincoln.

Kuromiya was born on May 9, 1943 in one of those places most America