U.S. Navy lnch ship named after gay rights lear Harvey Milk : NPR

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• THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK

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

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.

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 LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK

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.

WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK

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.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy ship named for sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk, who served four years the Navy before beg forced out, was christened and lnched San Diego Bay on replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk slid down the shipyard ways after a bottle of champagne was smashed on the bow by former Navy officer Pla M. ”Milk was one of the first openly gay ndidat elected to public office. “Ship nam are important bee they exprs what we value as a Navy and as a natn and munite those valu around the globe every port of ll, ” Del Toro Milk, -founr and print of the Harvey Milk Foundatn, thanked Mab for providg the fay tails of his uncle’s discharge om the Campos, left, vice chair of the California Democratic Party, tak a selfie wh Nile Murray-Ramirez, center, an LGBT activist, holdg a photo of Harvey Milk, and Bevan Dufty, right, director of the San Francis Bay area rapid trans district, prr to the lnchg of the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, Saturday, Nov.

He was forced to rign bee he was gay, ” Stuart Milk said, addg that “we have to teach our history to prevent ourselv om gog backwards and repeatg . – A Navy hazg se that led to the firg of the top enlisted officer aboard a nuclear submare was sparked by gay jok about a sailor who said another man tried to rape him while a foreign port, acrdg to an vtigative report obtaed by The Associated report sheds light on a hazg se that led to the reassignment of Master Chief Machist's Mate Charl Berry, who had been servg as "chief of the boat" on the Kgs Bay, Ga. Among other thgs, he was lled a rogatory term for a gay person and referred to as "Brokeback, " a reference to the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mounta.