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Welcome to the Gay and Lesbian History on Stamps (GLHS) site! After a five-year lapse, the GLHS was reactivated in We hope to be a resource for those who collect LGBTQ on stamps or who are LGBTQ and collect stamps. The postage stamps are the work of Finnish designer Timo Berry and are based on drawings by Touko Laaksonen. As Berry and others pointed out, Tom of Finland's greatest significance is his penchant for strong gay masculinity.

The United States Postal Service shared good news on Friday with an announcement they’ll be honoring two LGBTQ+ icons with stamps in Keith Haring and Betty White. Check out our gay pride stamps selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our stamps shops. It was released on 3 July , commemorating 15 years of the Rainbow Parade in Vienna, Austria. What philatelic items do you have that relate to gay and lesbian history and culture?

SCF typically disallows links for new members under 50 posts so I am adding it here for jps55liquefy. Rainbow stamps video I did about 5 years ago. The subject of the stamp, offered by German Post Shop , has previously appeared several times on German adhesives. In , he was elected as a San Francisco city supervisor, but he and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated the following year by a former city supervisor who had resigned but was trying to get his job back.

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Elizabeth Bishop Scott Being a perfectionist, Elizabeth Bishop published only poems during her lifetime. Santos-Dumont made his last flight after he was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis in Landscape architect Louis Benech has been Louboutin's partner since She studied at the University of Frankfort and fled to Paris shortly after Hitler rose to power in After attending Swarthmore College, She moved to England in where she became active in the suffrage movement there, being arrested several times, serving time in jail and going on a hunger strike.

Isadora Duncan Scott A celebrated dancer and teacher, Angela Isadora Duncan or moved to Europe in after feeling unappreciated in America. By then, he had been living with his life partner, former actor Robert Benavides, for more than 30 years. Being gay and of Jewish descent, in he fled via Switzerland to the United States where he lived until his death. Liberia Sheet Includes LGBTQ Nobel Honorees Liberia issued on December 2, , a souvenir sheet with six stamps to commemorate the Nobel Prize winners, one of whom says he is bisexual and the other being an out lesbian since the s.

Here untimely passing was due to an automobile accident while on the road; more than 10, persons passed by her casket at her funeral in Philadelphia. A running gag that continues to this day in Bugs Bunny shorts is the Waskally Wabbit appearing in drag. Israel's first pride stamp was issued on June Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He had romantic affairs with Scotty Bowers, and his longtime companion was Michael Logothetis. She married in , but the stormy relationship ended after six years due to infidelity on both sides, including numerous female lovers for Bessie. The Isle of Man website has the stamp set for sale. Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith , who worked in the late 19th and early 20th century, is considered one of the greatest illustrators of children.

Being never married and lacking any female companionship has led to considerable debate over his sexuality. I was equally fascinated by both female and male bodies. Italy Honors Franco Battiato For decades, one of the most popular singer-songwriters in Italy, Franco Battiato was recognized on a stamp issued November 25, James Baldwin Scott Novelist, playwright and activist James Arthur Baldwin is one of the best known American-American writers of the 20th century, writing of the destructive power of love and brotherhood.

Morcades August 1, , am 9. The festival was actually held from May 24 through June 5. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness explores gender identity, following human ambassador Genly Ai, who travels to icebound planet Genthen, where individuals are ambisexual. Mary Edwards Walker Tropez nightclub, in the French comedy La Cage aux Folles.

After the fall of Madrid in , she and her husband, whom she married at the age of 18, left for France but soon wound up in Argentina. He held his first solo exhibition in