Posted on 05/22/2014 11:36:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Long lines have formed in front of a U.S. Post Office in San Francisco’s Castro District this morning as supporters of assassinated city Supervisor Harvey Milk rush to get a stamp dedicated to the gay rights leader, a postal service spokesman said.
The stamp with Milk’s laughing face, name and a small strip of the rainbow flag, first became available this morning at post offices throughout San Francisco and nationwide. Gay civil rights activist Cleve Jones is at the Castro District post office, located at 4304 18th St., along with filmmaker Dustin Lance Black, who wrote the 2008 movie about Milk’s life and political career, “Milk,” according to USPS spokesman James Wigdel. “Stamps are selling briskly,” Wigdel said.
An official White House stamp dedication ceremony is being held today to honor the first openly gay San Francisco supervisor, while an informal dedication ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza with city Supervisor Scott Wiener and other community members, including Black and Jones.
A more formal ceremony will be held at San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda next Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., with members of Milk’s family expected to attend, according to Wigdel.
Today is Harvey Milk Day throughout the state, which in 2009 officially named the date in honor of Milk, who was gunned down in San Francisco City Hall, along with Mayor George Moscone, on Nov. 27, 1978, by disgruntled former Supervisor Dan White.
There are other celebrations today to honor Milk, who would have turned 84 today, and his legacy. At San Francisco’s GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th St., admission is free in honor of Harvey Milk Day.
Docent-led tours are offered every hour on the hour at the museum, which is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
A 6 p.m. birthday celebration honoring Milk will be held at Beaux at 2344 Market St. in San Francisco, while a “Milk” movie screening at the Skyline United Church of Christ at 12540 Skyline Blvd. in Oakland will give participants an opportunity to discuss the impact of the gay rights leader’s life.
Skyline. Where men’s towers presume to reach to the heavens. Metaphorically fitting.
Who knows what you might catch licking that stamp....
I wonder if they considered a flavored adhesive or a scratch and sniff patch on the stamp.
Most modern stamps are non lick.
What it might smell like shouldn’t be discussed in mixed company.
Too bad Dan White didn’t run into DiFi that day.
I'll leave that to the imagination.
Sometimes the jokes almost write themselves.
Yea but they will lick the front of them.
:: Yea but they will lick the front of them. ::
As long as they aren’t more than 12 years-old....
It wouldn’t matter if every single solitary person on this globe cheered the fags. They’d remain pitiful wrecks, tragic follies.
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These are non-lick; unless you are an underage boy.
A scumbag who covered up for one of the biggest mass murderers in American history, Jim Jones? Yeah, San Francisco is a cesspool.
Is it the new pre-teen craze to lick non-lick stamps?
What did cesspools ever do to deserve the likeness.
A stamp they’ll lick both sides of...
I predict we will be accused of homophobia, if we go to the post office, and decide against the Harvey Milk stamp.
I see now I'm not the only one who has had that thought cross my mind.
With the introduction of the Harvey Milk Stamp, there is no consideration and there is no recourse for the Christian Postal Worker who must sell the Harvey Milk Stamp or deliver letters with the it affixed and there is no consideration for the Christian office worker or mailroom worker who must handle letters with the Harvey Milk Stamp.
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