USPS: Like MLK and Cesar Chavez, Our Harvey Milk Stamp Honors a Civil Rights Leader

Harvey Milk honored with postage stamp (The Washington Post)

The U.S. Postal Service dedicated a stamp to Harvey Milk, one of the nation’s first openly gay elected officials, in a White House ceremony Thursday.

“This stamp reflects our longstanding commitment to civil rights,” said Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman. “Harvey Milk joins other civil rights pioneers who have been honored with stamps including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Caesar Chavez.”

Milk was a San Francisco city supervisor when he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated at city hall Nov. 27, 1978, by a former city supervisor. Milk was posthumously awarded a Medal of Freedom in 2009. Thursday would have been his 84th birthday.