Kiyoshi Kuromiya was a civil rights, anti-war, gay liberation, and AIDS campaigner of Japanese ancestry. A person born in the United States who has Japanese ancestry or Japanese parents is called a Japanese-American. He was born on May 9, 1943, at the World War II-era Japanese American internment camp Heart Mountain in Wyoming. Unusual and cruel place to be born but sadly, this was something Japanese Americans like his parents had to deal with at the time of his birth. During WWII, the US government forcibly abducted over 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and interned them in camps around the country. The government's move was the conclusion of a long history of racist and discriminatory treatment of Asian immigrants and their descendants that erupted in the aftermath of Japan's Pearl Harbour assault. The primary motivations for the activity were paranoia and prejudice. People on the West Coast had long been envious of Japanese American businesspeople and farmers' commercial success. They asked that these people be taken from their houses for the duration of the conflict.

When he grew up, Kuromiya became a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. He also launched the Critical Path Project, which intended to offer AIDS patients with access to computers and technology. What was the Critical Path’s purpose? To serve as a newsletter and a 24h hotline to educate people about the HIV/AIDS Epidemic with reliable and trustworthy information so as to quell panic and provide information to those with HIV/AIDS. The guidelines made available by the HIV/ AIDS patients were the first of their kind.

Kiyoshi’s activism doesn’t stop there as he also founded the Fight the AIDS Establishment (FAE) campaign. This campaign aimed to challenge the response to the AIDS epidemic the medical establishment had and to promote broader access to experimental treatments for people living with HIV/ AIDS. Not only that but Kuromiya also got involved in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, also known as ACT UP. This was a direction action advocacy group that had a key role in raising awareness about HIV/ AIDS and advocated for greater access to treatment and care for people living with HIV/ AIDS.

In short, Kiyoshi got so much campaigning done to help improve the lives of HIV/AIDS patients. His campaign efforts helped improve people’s lives while not being able to cure them. Kiyoshi Kuromiya's work in civil rights, anti-war movements, and HIV/AIDS activism made a significant impact on many communities, showing that even without finding a cure, advocacy and support can lead to meaningful change. He died in 2000 of cancer but his activism lives on. He was honoured in 2022 with a Google Doodle with his likeness on a wall with an old style telephone handle.