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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. 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.

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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 *

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

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

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. Keep md – the agents weren’t gay, there were jt followg orrs, actg as mascule ys to entrap men to sex. Although the ys engaged sexual activy wh other Navy men their actns were not emed homosexual, as they didn’t assume a female role the vtigatn.

So – what nstut beg gay? Remember, the judicial system of this untry was found on the belief that all men are nocent until proven gay.

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