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• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• NAVY OFFICIALLY LNCH SUPPORT SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY TRAILBLAZER HARVEY MILK
• GAY SHIPS
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• U.S. NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY IN HARVEY MILK

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.

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

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.

NAVY OFFICIALLY LNCH SUPPORT SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY TRAILBLAZER HARVEY MILK

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.

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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.

The ship is named after the famed out activist who beme one of Ameri’s first gay elected officials when he beme a San Francis Cy Supervisor, Harvey Milk.

He was a former Navy officer who was forced to rign after his superrs found out he was gay. He was forced to rign bee he was gay, ” and s important that the discharge isn’t reversed bee “we have to teach our history to prevent ourselv om gog backwards and repeatg . Before Milk beme one of the first out elected officials Ameri and a vol proponent for gay rights, he served the Navy, where he was urt-martialed and discharged on Febary 7, 1955, 22 years before he would w electn to the San Francis Board of Supervisors.

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Milk famoly exhorted gays and lbians to “e out, ” sayg was the way to change the average Amerin’s views on homosexualy. “We are g out to tell the tths about gays, for I am tired of the nspiracy of silence, so I’m gog to talk about .

After the verdict broke on May 21, 1979, the public anized a peaceful march San Francis’s predomantly gay Castro District.

U.S. NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY IN HARVEY MILK

Later that night, the police took to Castro Street, raidg a gay bar and attackg people on the streets, many of whom had participated the march.

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