Harvey Milk Stamps?

By Nick Dawson On March 30, 2009

Via our guest blogger Jenni Olson (and her Harvey Milk Movie News blog) comes news that there is a campaign underway to have Harvey Milk, the subject of Focus Features' Oscar-winning Milk, honored on a postage stamp.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian has more:

"Now comes a Facebook group known as "Honor Harvey Milk with a U.S Postage Stamp." It had close to 9,000 members from around the nation as of last Friday, including Milk's gay nephew Stuart. Ohio resident Daniel Drent launched the group earlier this year and is hopeful approval of a Milk stamp can come in time to coincide with Milk's birthday next spring.

"I was online one night and had just recently seen the movie Milk again, and it kind of hit me. It is time we honored the work he has done and the pride and change he started for us," said Drent, a gay man who lives in Cincinnati and has seen Milk five times."

The Guardian has a good long piece about this great grassroots movement which is well worth reading online here.

And after you've done that, why not get involved by visiting the Facebook group and lending your support.