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Milk served the Navy the 1950s, but was discharged after beg qutned about his sexual orientatn. He beme the first openly gay elected official California before his ath 1978.

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US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

A Navy ship named for gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was ma to rign om the force bee of his sexual orientatn, was lnched San Diego Saturday. * navy gay news *

A Navy ship named for gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was ma to rign om the force bee of his sexual orientatn, was lnched San Diego Saturday. He was the first openly gay elected official the state of California.

Milk served the Navy as a divg officer durg the Korean War, at a time when gay service members were not allowed to openly acknowledge their sexualy. Durg his time as a divg stctor San Diego, California, the 1950s, his supervisors ught him at a park popular wh gay men, acrdg to his nephew Stuart Milk.

THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK

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Milk was one of the first openly gay policians elected to office the Uned Stat, and the first openly gay official elected California. While servg as a cy supervisor, Milk troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment.

He and other activists also succeed strikg down Proposn 6, which would have mandated the firg of gay or lbian teachers California. Navy has lnched and christened a ship named for the sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk, who served the Navy durg the Korean War but was discharged after beg qutned about his sexual orientatn. Namg the ship after an in of the LGBTQ rights movement reprents a symbolic tone for the ary followg a long history which gay service members were unable to serve openly.

In this April 1977 file photo, San Francis supervisor Harvey Milk ss the mayor's office durg the signg of the cy's gay rights bill San Francis.

NAVY SECRETARY: CHAPLA FED BY ‘CHOICE’ TO INTIFY AS GAY

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told an openly gay chapla that homosexualy is a choice; a Navy spokman says he meant a choice to intify as gay. * navy gay news *

The Navy is namg a ship honor of the late gay rights lear, who served the Navy for four years before he began a reer San Francis cy ernment. In 1977, after his Navy reer, Milk beme the first openly gay elected official California when he won a seat on the San Francis Board of Supervisors. "Growg up gay wasn't easy, but havg the opportuny to show the world who I am has spired many dividuals to be themselv and show there is a muny who will accept them for who they are.

(Screenshot/YouTube)Edor’s Note: This story has been Secretary Carlos Del Toro told an openly gay chapla that homosexualy is a choice durg an onle town hall event that took place on Monday. They’re fed by your choice to be homosexual, and that we’ve got to work together and have hope and that we will, you know, ntue to make progrs time, ” Del Toro said the vio was posted by Lt. Cory Newell, a gay non-nomatnal pastor currently the chapla pipele.

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