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The American Family Association won’t accept mail using the new Harvey Milk postage stamp—not even donations. AFA released a statement late May urging their supporters not only to refuse to buy postage donning the face of the late gay California politician, but also to reject mail received with that postage.

Experiments conducted by other bloggers show that the AFA will hold true to their incessant boycotts: each sender got his money back.

Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, promoted gay rights legislation and was assassinated in 1978. He is still an icon for gay activism and “gave hope and confidence to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the United States and elsewhere at a time when the community was encountering widespread hostility and discrimination,” according to a http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_026.htm">USPS statement released after the reveal of the new Milk stamp.

The AFA, however, believes the commemoration of Milk is http://afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147546163">“disturbing to say the least,” touching on the fact that the stamp was introduced after seven years of lobbying by the drag queen (they leave out prominent LGBT-rights activist and San Diego Human Rights Commissioner) Nicole Murray-Ramirez.

The AFA cites Milk’s biography The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk to claim he was a pedophile. Milk, according to the source, had a relationship with a 16-year-old while in his thirties. “This is not diversity; this is perversity,” Tim Wildmon, AFA president, said in a http://www.afa.net/Media/PressRelease.aspx?id=2147545183">press release.

Either way, AFA is missing out on a few http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/06/update-the-american-family-association-rejected-our-harvey-milk-stamp-donation/372590/">$5 to http://www.queerty.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-send-money-to-the-american-family-association-using-the-harvey-milk-stamp-20140619">$10 checks (and one http://www.roanoke.com/news/columns_and_blogs/blogs/dan_casey/donate-to-the-american-family-association-today/article_2f675518-ea54-11e3-9418-001a4bcf6878.html">$100 one) from some hilarious Internet trolls.