Google is celebrating Barbara May Cameron’s 69th birthday with a special doodle. Cameron, born May 22, 1954, is a Native American photographer, poet, writer and human rights activist remembered for his passionate writing and speeches. Sienna Gonzales, a Mexican LGBT artist, and Chitimachanka, created this doodle artwork (below) to celebrate Barbara’s 69th birthday.
Source: Google Doodle
Who is Barbara May Cameron?
Barbara May Cameron was born on May 22, 1954. She is Hunkpapa Lakota of the Fort Yates Band of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her Lakota name is Wia Washte Wi, which means ‘good woman or woman’. After completing elementary and high school, she studied photography and videography at the American Institute of Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Achievements and Awards
Cameron moved to San Francisco in 1973 after coming out as a lesbian and advocating for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the Native American community and addressing racism in the gay space. She has been actively involved in various programs to improve human happiness.
She became the executive director of Community Solidarity Against Violence, where she helps victims of hate crimes and domestic violence. In 1988, the mayor of San Francisco appointed Cameron to the Citizens’ Community Development Commission and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and the next mayor appointed her to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Barbara is also involved with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the American Indian AIDS Institute, serving as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control in the early 1990s, assisting with immunization program against AIDS and children. Some of her notable activities and achievements include:
- Cameron was the co-founder of the first gay American Indian liberation organization, Gay American Indians.
- For a long five-year period (1980 to 1985), Cameron was in charge of the Lesbian Freedom Day Parade and Celebration.
- She received the Harvey Milk Award for Community Service in 1992.
- She was also the first recipient of the Community Service Award for Women in the Cause of the Bay Area.
- In 1993, she partnered with the International Indigenous AIDS Network to engage in AIDS education, traveling to many Indian reservations throughout the United States.
- Barbara is the founder of the Native American Institute for Health and Wellness, whose first project was to publish works by Native American female writers.
Death
Cameron was in a relationship with Linda Boyd for 21 years. Together they raised a son, Rhys Boyd-Farrell. On February 12, 2002, she died of natural causes at the age of 47. Her “Long Time, No See” script was unfinished upon her death.
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