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- RSIAN LAWMAKER WANTS TO BAN GAY-THEMED FNISH STAMPS
- TOM OF FLAND 3 FNISH POSTAL STAMPS + 3 POSTRDS, GAY TERT, SEALED, MNH
RSIAN LAWMAKER WANTS TO BAN GAY-THEMED FNISH STAMPS
The Fnish postal service's cisn to e the artist's bold imag on a new set of stamps will make philatelic history, but he's not the first gay hero to grace an envelope * finland postage stamp gay *
Dean Shepherd, edor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly, says that he has never seen homoerotic art on stamps before.
TOM OF FLAND 3 FNISH POSTAL STAMPS + 3 POSTRDS, GAY TERT, SEALED, MNH
Gay stamps abound wh a tribute to sla San Francis supervisor Harvey Milk and a stamp memoratg the work of Tom of Fland. * finland postage stamp gay *
When payg tribute to LGBT culture, 's more ual for stamps to pict gay 2012, for stance, send world war breaker Alan Turg was featured the Royal Mail's Brons of Distctn seri, and May this year, a stamp featurg Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials the US, will be lnched wh a ceremony at the Whe Hoe. There is currently a mpaign unr way to honour gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt wh a stamp, and the Gay and Lbian History on Stamps Club, found New York 1982, highlights other notable gay people who have featured.