By Dan Brekke and Alex Helmick
Harvey Milk, champion of gay rights assassinated at San Francisco City Hall in 1978, would have turned 84 Thursday. And now, like hundreds of renowned Americans before him, from Richard Feynman to Martin Luther King Jr. to Jimi Hendrix, the U.S. Postal Service has released a stamp bearing his likeness.
The release of the stamp, marked with a White House ceremony, drew a crowd to San Francisco's Castro neighborhood post office.
Long lines formed outside the facility at 18th and Diamond streets, and Postal Service spokesman James Wigdel says that office sold 5,000 of the Milk stamps in the first two hours it was on sale. The price of the stamp: 49 cents.
Postal Service spokesman James Wigdel say long lines formed outside the Castro post office, which sold 5,000 of the Milk stamps in the first two hours.