Google honors lesbian Native American activist Barbara May Cameron

Google’s doodle of Barbara May Cameron
Photo: screenshot

Today – Monday, May 22 – the search engine Google displayed an illustrated doodle commemorating the birthday of Barbara May Cameron, a lesbian Native American artist and activist celebrated for her anti-racist and HIV activism.

Born in 1954 within Fort Yates, North Dakota, Cameron was a member of the Lakota tribe’s Hunkpapa group and was raised by her grandparents on the Standing Rock Reservation, the same place where, 62 years later, Native Americans successfully led a six-year-long protest against an oil pipeline.

Cameron studied photography and film at the American Indian Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She then moved to San Francisco in 1973 after coming out as a lesbian. There, she and Native American activist Randy Burns founded the Gay American Indians, the first-known indigenous queer activist group.

In San Francisco, Cameron helped organize the…

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