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Report: Milk stamp set for 2014
Giants win ‘Cure’ game
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he United States Postal Service will reportedly release a stamp featuring the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in 2014. It would mark the first time a stamp has been issued specifically to honor an LGBT person. Linn’s Stamp News, a weekly publication that covers the mail service, is reporting in its May 27 issue that Milk was among the special stamps chosen for next year by the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee Jim Leff during its closed door meetings earlier this A mockup of a year. Harvey Milk An anonymous stamp source sent Linn’s a copy of the panel’s January 31 and February 1 meeting minutes where 2014 stamps were debated and chosen. It included a notation that the minutes regarding the Milk stamp, along with a number of other choices, had been approved at an April 13 meeting. Reporter Bill McAllister, who provided the Bay Area Reporter with a copy of the article posted to the website of the subscription-only publication May 13, cautioned in the story that “there is no certainty” that the Milk or other listed stamps would be issued in 2014. The documents McAllister was provided, nonetheless, list the Milk stamp for release in May next year. Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts, asked last week about the status of the Milk stamp, told the B.A.R. the agency has “neither confirmed nor denied what the line-up will be for 2014.” He said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe would finalize the list of 2014 stamps, which normally number 30 per year, sometime in late August or September. According to Linn’s, others set to be posthumously celebrated with their own postage include actress Elizabeth Taylor, Apple founder Steve Jobs, and chef Julia Child. In 2010 Milk’s openly gay nephew, Stuart Milk, told the B.A.R. that the Postal Service had contacted his family that year to inquire about his famous uncle and asked about upcoming milestones. He did not return the B.A.R.’s request for comment this week. Some had speculated the stamp could be issued this year, as November 27 will be the 35th anniversary of the death of Milk and former San Francisco Mayor George See page 9 >>
Vol. 43 • No. 21 • May 23-29, 2013
Trans Latinas seek city funds by Matthew S. Bajko
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he San Francisco Giants honored the late closer Rod Beck Tuesday, May 21 during the team’s 20th annual Until There’s A Cure game at AT&T Park, which helped raise money for the nonprofit Until There’s A Cure Foundation. Players, like pitcher Sergio Romo above, wore red ribbons on their
uniforms as part of the evening’s tribute. The Giants went on to defeat the visiting Washington Nationals 4-2 in 10 innings, off a two-run walk-off homer by fan favorite Pablo Sandoval. The Giants were the first professional sports team in the U.S. to raise HIV/AIDS awareness with the special pre-game event.
s transgender Latinas increasingly speak out about the discrimination and harassment they experience in San Francisco’s Mission district, a nonprofit is asking city officials to fund its work to prevent such violence. El/La Para Translatinas emerged in 2006 after Proyecto ContraSIDA Por Vida, where it had been a program, Rick Gerharter lost its funding. It is mainly volunteer-led Isa Noyola but has been able to tap into HIV funds in order to hire three part-time staffers. In 2012 El/La estimates it saw 300 trans LatiSee page 7 >>
Large turnout of Manning supporters expected at Pride by James Patterson
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he state of the LGBT community, on the eve of Pride Month, is strong, proud, and ready to celebrate 38 days from now. Many marchers will not only be celebrating their sexuality, relationships and, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s help, possibly marriage equality, but a large number are expected to march in support of imprisoned gay Army private first class Bradley Manning. Although the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board rescinded Manning’s grand marshal honor late last month, many of his supporters continue to view him as a community grand marshal. At a recent mock Pride board meeting, local activists who were present unanimously voted to reinstate grand marshal status on Manning, the whistleblower who leaked 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks. He has confessed to some of the charges against him and is awaiting a court-martial on the others. In an unscientific polling of individuals at events around the Castro in recent days, the bword, as in boycott, was mentioned, but it was not a popular idea, even from some who previously endorsed it. In a letter to the editor of the Bay Area Reporter last week, San Francisco resident Loren
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Sue Englander from the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club speaks about the pending court-martial of gay whistle-blower Bradley Manning during a May 17 rally in the Castro to mark the International Day Against Homophobia.
P. Meissner Jr. announced a Facebook page titled “Boycott SF Pride 2013 unless Bradley Manning is made Grand Marshal.” At press time, the page had only 29 Likes and the majority of the postings on the page urged against
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a boycott. Meissner told the B.A.R. that his call for a boycott of Pride’s sponsors was solely as an individual. There appeared to be no community See page 9 >>