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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 * finnish gay stamp *
Dean Shepherd, edor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly, says that he has never seen homoerotic art on stamps before. 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.
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The clu the artist Andy Warhol, the wrer Jam Baldw and the poet Elizabeth 2010, the Atrian Post Office issued a stamp memoratg the 15th Rabow Para Vienna, but perhaps the most joyful of all stamps celebratg gay culture are those created for a kgdom not regnised by any ernment. A group of gay rights activists found the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands 2004, rponse to the Atralian ernment's refal to regnise equal marriage, and a post office was set up.
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