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TODAY: White House To Unveil Harvey Milk Stamp In Live Webcast Ceremony

Via White House press release:
This Thursday, May 22nd, the White House Office of Public Engagement, the United States Postal Service and the Harvey Milk Foundation will host a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Harvey Milk Forever Stamp at the White House. The event will feature remarks by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senator Tammy Baldwin, Representative John Lewis, Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman, and other distinguished guests including the Co-Founders of the Harvey Milk Foundation, Stuart Milk and Anne Kronenberg.
The ceremony will be live-streamed here at 3PM. I'll push this post back to the top of the blog a few minutes before things get going.

UPDATE: The ceremony is about to begin.

UPDATE II: The unveiling is done. Among those on stage in the photo below: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Rep. John Lewis, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Mark Pocan, Stuart Milk (Harvey's nephew).

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