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Proposal for a Harvey Milk stamp
February 9th, 2010
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is co-sponsoring the Harvey Milk National Stamp Campaign.
“This stamp would serve to further remind Americans that by honoring Harvey Milk, you honor a true American Hero and Champion of Civil Rights for all people,” they said in their campaign literature to get the stamp printed.
To support the effort to issue a Harvey Milk stamp, write to:
Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee c/o Stamp Development U.S. Postal Service 1735 North Lynn Ste Suite 5013 Arlington, VA 22209-6432And yes, that’s an old-fashioned letter that requires a stamp.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
I hope this stamp makes it to the post office! I will stock up!
February 10th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Maybe I am prejudice, but my iconic image of Harvey Milk…Harvey with a candle in one hand and his bullhorn in the other and a sign in the background “SAVE OUR RIGHTS”, would be more fitting as the Official Harvey Milk Stamp… because it introduced Harvey Nationally… as a openly gay spokesperson 5 months before he was elected as the first openly gay male politician in the country
and was a pivotal footnote in Gay History. It was on 6/7/77 and as I called “Orange Tuesday”, the night that in Dade County Florida, Anita Bryant led voters to overturn a new gay rights ordinance, that was felt all the was across the country in San Francisco… because I took my flm to Associated Press… it was flashed throughout the United States, in small towns and big cities.
for the history of that image visit
http://www.thecastro.net/street/memoriespage/pritikin/scene05.html
I knew Harvey and that image, prior to the “Milk” movie was probably the best known image of Harvey, and featured in Randy Shilts book “THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET” and on my recommendation was the chapter name, that Shilts used in his book. This coming Pride Month, I am having a major Exhibit at the Gage Gallery in Chicago… and will feature over 40 images of
the gay rights movement in S.F. during the 1970s. At 73, I feel it would give credit to my contributions over 35 years as a one man army fighting for gay rights.