Google celebrates the 69th anniversary of Barbara May Cameron’s birth with a special doodle. Cameron, born May 22, 1954 is a Native American photographer, poet, writer and human rights activist remembered for his passionate writings and speeches. Sienna Gonzales, a Mexican LGBT artist and Chitimachan, created this doodle art (below) to celebrate Barbara’s 69th birthday.
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Who is Barbara May Cameron?
Barbara May Cameron was born on May 22, 1954. She is a Hunkpapa Lakota from the Fort Yates band of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her Lakota name is Wia Washte Wi, which stands for ‘good woman or woman’. After completing elementary and middle school, she studied photography and videography at the Institute of American 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 pushed for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the Native American community as well as addressing racism in gay spaces. She has actively participated in many programs aimed at improving human health.
She became executive director of Communities United Against Violence, where she helped victims of hate crimes and domestic abuse. Cameron was appointed by the mayor of San Francisco to the Citizens Commission on Community Development and the San Francisco Commission on Human Rights in 1988, and the next mayor appointed her to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Barbara was also involved with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the American Indian AIDS Institute, serving as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control in the early 1990s, supporting programs Childhood vaccination and AIDS. Some of her notable activities and achievements include:
- Cameron is the co-founder of the first gay American Indian liberation organization, Gay American Indians.
- For five long years (1980 to 1985), Cameron was in charge of the Lesbian Freedom Day Parade and Celebration.
- She was honored with the Harvey Milk Award for Community Service in 1992.
- Additionally, she was the first recipient of the Bay Area Career Women Community Service Award.
- In 1993, she collaborated with the International Indigenous AIDS Network to engage in AIDS education, traveling to many Indian reservations across the United States.
- Barbara is the founder of the Institute for American Indian Health and Wellness, whose first project was to publish works by Native American women writers.
Death
Cameron was in a relationship with Linda Boyd for 21 long years. Together they raised a son, Rhys Boyd-Farrell. On February 12, 2002, she died of natural causes at the age of 47. Her script for “Long Time, No See” was still unfinished when she died.
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