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sheshe2

(83,788 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 09:10 PM Apr 2014

Harvey Milk Stamp Will Be First To Feature An Openly Gay Elected Official [View all]

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he U.S. Postal Service will release a postage stamp featuring gay rights icon and former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk on May 22, Harvey Milk Day, Linns Stamp News reported Monday.

The stamp will be the first to feature an openly-gay elected official, and it will contain an image of the LGBT rights rainbow flag.

Officials are considering San Francisco and Washington, D.C. as potential opening day cities, according to Linns.

Milk was the first openly gay official to person to be elected to a political office in California. He won a seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, and was assassinated in 1978 by a former city supervisor.

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Harvey Milk Stamp Will Be First To Feature An Openly Gay Elected Official [View all] sheshe2 Apr 2014 OP

Yea!!! Excellent!!! K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2014 #1

Cool. bigwillq Apr 2014 #2

That is a beautiful stamp, she.. Yay for our country having Harvey Milk on Cha Apr 2014 #3

Amazing, is it not. sheshe2 Apr 2014 #4

A stamp long overdue. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #5

Agreed, and now it is a forever stamp~ nt sheshe2 Apr 2014 #10

Kind of cool it's a "forever" stamp KittyWampus Apr 2014 #6

Awesome! Great picture of him too. Cue the AFA boycotting mail . . . NOW! ET Awful Apr 2014 #7

Oh great. Now my mailman will be trying to fix me up with his gay cousin. JohnnyRingo Apr 2014 #8

I'm using Hendrix stamps at the moment. Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2014 #12

I want those! JohnnyRingo Apr 2014 #14

They're mustard yellow and psychedelic. Truly the whole block page is a great work of art. Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2014 #16

USA! USA! USA! RoverSuswade Apr 2014 #9

I have to get some of these! n/t passiveporcupine Apr 2014 #11

On our holiday cards this year! And my 10 year old knows why. (nt) ehrnst Apr 2014 #13

kick kick kick CrispyQ Apr 2014 #15

Makes me wish I had my uncle's address... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2014 #17

So very sorry, awoke. sheshe2 Apr 2014 #18

I didn't care for him growing up... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2014 #19

I am too! sheshe2 Apr 2014 #20

What are stamps? gerogie2 Apr 2014 #21

Well not out loud and proud but Abe did sleep w/men and wrote a love poem to another man's thighs Botany Apr 2014 #22

About time! IrishAyes Apr 2014 #23

Beautiful and long overdue tribute! Heidi Apr 2014 #24