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.
Only a matter of time until the USS Harvey Milk.
I suggest Kool-Aid, in honor of Milk's hero, Jim Jones.
some activists have talked of this, because Harvey served in the Navy.
With a good whiff of almond to symbolize the cyanide, of course.
That’s why it’s only a matter of time.
Yep, they completely white-washed that part of Milk’s career.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple
A gay man named Oliver Sipple, a veteran, saved President Ford from an assassination attempt. He tried to stay out of the news as he was not “out” to his family. But Harvey Milt decided that he’d make the man famous because he was gay and he’d saved a Republican. Sipple’s family disowned him. He was so despondent that he committed suicide, sitting next to the framed thank you letter President Ford sent. Harvey Milt was a worthless POS who would happily destroy anybody for a moment in the news. He’s the worst kind of politician and should be a hero to nobody.
Was DiFI packing back then? Considering that city, Dan may have been the lucky one.
“city Supervisor Scott Wiener?”
Is this a three dollar stamp?
“Only a matter of time until the USS Harvey Milk.”
Then they both would be filled with seamen...ba dum bump.
Note the "esteemed" US Senator in the pic.
Milk was a communist and supporter of NAMBLA, the pedophile group.
IOW...pure evil.
***by disgruntled former Supervisor Dan White. ***
Who just happened to be a member of one of the most anti-gun groups the National Council to Control Handguns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Campaign
“The Brady Campaign was founded in 1974 as the National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH). From 1980 through 2000 it operated under the name Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI).”
Twinkie flavored?
Boy Pal of the bi-gay Jim Jones.
All to be stuck on an envelope and tossed in trash can.
Yeah he is not acting, just being himself.
“Sipple’s mental and physical health sharply declined over the years. He drank heavily, gained weight to 300 lb (140 kg), was fitted with a pacemaker, and became paranoid and suicidal. The incident brought him so much attention that, later in life, while drinking, he would express regret towards grabbing Moore’s gun. Sipple, who was wounded in the head in Vietnam, was also diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic according to the coroner’s report.”
Sipple really got a raw deal. Not only because he never got recognition for saving a president’s life, and not only because Milk and the media slime were unwilling to respect his privacy, but also because, in all probability, no one ever told him in sincerity and empathy that he needed treatment for his same-sex attraction disorder.
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