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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. * gay decoy navy *

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.

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As "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to an end, we sent Chris Heath to terview dozens of gay servicemen om the past and prent to fd out what life was really like as Ameri's ary stggled wh s last great inty crisis * gay decoy navy *

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.

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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.

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

He and other activists also succeed strikg down Proposn 6, which would have mandated the firg of gay or lbian teachers California.

Erv Arnold, a naval machist, disvered that lol civilian homosexuals regularly ma ntact wh one another and wh Navy personnel.

They were tasked wh rootg out the fairi: each was to approach spic dividuals and, if nsent was given, allow said dividual to display their homosexualy.

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