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
• US NAVY NAM SHIP AFTER ASSASSATED GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER
• HARVEY MILK: US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR
• US NAVY SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK IS LNCHED SAN DIEGO BAY
• US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• NAVY OFFICIALLY LNCH SUPPORT SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY TRAILBLAZER HARVEY MILK
• WHY DID GAY RIGHTS IN HARVEY MILK GET A SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM?
• THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• US NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY RIGHTS IN HARVEY MILK
• NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
• NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
• NAVY CHRISTENS SHIP USNS HARVEY MILK, NAMED AFTER GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• THE US NAVY JT LNCHED A SHIP NAMED AFTER HARVEY MILK — NEARLY 70 YEARS AFTER THE GAY RIGHTS IN WAS DISCHARGED OM THE SERVICE DUE TO HIS SEXUALY

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

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.

One of the first openly gay policians the Uned Stat, who was assassated four s ago, will have a ship named after him this weekend, as the US ary looks to keep step wh morn-day social attus. The USNS Harvey Milk honours a former navy diver who served at a time there was a ban on homosexualy the armed forc, and who was later shot ad San Francis, months after wng public office. Whe was nvicted of voluntary manslghter and sentenced to five years jail, a verdict that sparked outrage, particularly San Francis’s gay muny.

US NAVY NAM SHIP AFTER ASSASSATED GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The USNS Harvey Milk was lnched San Diego on SaturdayThe US Navy has lnched a ship named after a gay rights activist forced to rign om the service bee of his sexualy the 1950s. But he was forced out of the service followg two weeks of terrogatn about his sexualy later beme one of Ameri's first openly gay policians, elected 1977 to the San Francis Board of a year later he was shot and killed by Dan Whe, a former cy supervisor wh whom he had equently clashed.

HARVEY MILK: US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR

Navy has lnched a new ship named after gay-rights lear Harvey, the first openly gay official to be elected California the 1970s, had been forced out of the Navy two s earlier bee of his sexual lnch of the USNS Harvey Milk took place the San Diego Bay on Nov.

US NAVY SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK IS LNCHED SAN DIEGO BAY

"More than two s after his naval reer was end, Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977, beg the first openly gay elected official California. The ship honors Navy veteran and LGBT activist Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay ndidat elected to public office. 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.

US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

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 OFFICIALLY LNCH SUPPORT SHIP NAMED AFTER GAY TRAILBLAZER HARVEY MILK

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 .

WHY DID GAY RIGHTS IN HARVEY MILK GET A SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM?

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. 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 .

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

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

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. The US Navy has lnched a ship named after civil rights lear and Navy veteran Harvey Harvey Milk is one of six oil tankers the John Lewis class of ships named after people who fought for civil rights and human Navy plans to procure a total of 20 John Lewis-class Navy Ships Named After 'People Who Fought For Civil Rights And Human RightsHow Milary History was Central To San Francis Beg The Gay Capal Of The WorldHow Do A US Navy Ship Get Its Name?

Kennedy, lawyer Earl Warren, women's rights activists Sojourner Tth and Lucy Stone, as well John Lewis, the civil rights lear and polician who the class of ships is named for Navy ships are officially chosen and by the Secretary of the Navy, unr the directn of the Print and acrdance wh guil om Congrs and put om the general ships after fluential figur is one of the US Navy’s longt and proust Ships hold a high stat Amerin society as they are thought to exemplify the valu of not only the Navy but the natn that the Navy striv to ships munite those valu at every port of ll and nsirg that the US has around 800 ary bas around the world, that outreach go nsirably take a look at the life and legacy of Harvey Milk and exame why havg a ship named after the gay rights in is an important step the directn of clivy and Harvey Milk Christeng Ceremony.

US NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY RIGHTS IN HARVEY MILK

Harvey Bernard Milk (born May 22, 1930, New York – died November 27, 1978, San Francis, California) was the first openly gay elected male polician Uned Stat was born a sleepy New York Cy suburb of Woodmere to Lhuanian Jewish immigrant parents.

(Picture: Alamy)Wore a navy belt buckle until the day he died As a young graduate, Milk enlisted the US Navy durg the Korean War, servg aboard the submare rcue ship USS Ktiwake ( a serendipo fate of irony, the 742-foot-long USNS Harvey Milk was lnched om San Diego where Milk himself was statned servg as a divg 1949, the Department of Defence anti-homosexualy regulatns stated: "Homosexual personnel, irrpective of sex, should not be permted to serve any branch of the Armed Forc any pacy, and prompt separatn of known homosexuals om the Armed Forc is mandatory.

NAVY TO NAME SHIP AFTER GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK

Servg while openly gay, lbian, or bisexual was not allowed until 2010 when Congrs abolished the discrimatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which prohibed LGBTQ+ service members om servg while beg open about their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was passed 1993 unr Print Clton.

NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK

It was a step forward and a step back at the same time for gay rights, as allowed LGBTQ+ personnel to serve on the ndn that they were secretive about their discrimatory policy was overturned by Obama 17 years later. Durg that time, is timated that some 14, 000 service members were discharged durg the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ 1951, when Milk enlisted the Navy beg homosexual was nsired a shameful sackable offence, the stigma of which would follow the veteran onto civvy left the Navy four years after jog at the rank of litenant junr gra.

However, do not seem like the veteran harboured rentment towards the ary, which like many workplac at the time, had a prejudicial attute agast gay people. Ultimately, his heart was not and he was let off for refg to tame his hair le wh the other office workers on Wall many other gay former soldiers, Milk found himself San facg homophobic abe for openg a photography store wh his partner, Milk found the Castro Village Associatn, an anisatn of gay-owned bs – the first of s kd the succsful example of the Castro Village Associatn prompted queer bs across the US to form siar Milk celebrat his mera store his electn as a San Francis Supervisor on electn night 1977. After wng his seat on the San Francis Board of Supervisors he said:"It's not my victory, 's yours and yours and a gay n w, means there is hope that the system n work for all mori if we fight.

"Ls than a year after makg his wng speech, one of the first openly gay policians the untry was assassated. He was only 48 years a passnate polician that strived to reprent all his voters and their issu no matter how big or small, Milk fought agast gentrifitn, as well as creatg the first mandate to fe dog owners who left their pet’s ms on the San Fran Gay rights lear had a premonn that he might be shot and rerd several statements and wills prr to his of the tap that he left to be read the event of his assassatn, ntas the powerful now-famo quote:“If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door. Durg his wng speech he said: “I would like to see every gay doctor e out, every gay lawyer, every gay archect e out, stand up and let that world know, “That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would image.

NAVY CHRISTENS SHIP USNS HARVEY MILK, NAMED AFTER GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

"The navy kicked Harvey Milk out wh a dishonorable discharge for beg gay, and now is namg a ship after him.

Another polician, Bevan Dufty, an out gay man who serv on the Bay Area Rapid Trans board of directors, said the ship's christeng was a ttament to Milk's legacy. Dufty, who attend the christeng ceremony, said Milk was a eply humoro man who would've appreciated the ocsn for a particular reason: Naval ships are often referred to as "she" and "her, " so when the event's ary speakers kept referrg to the vsel named for Milk as "Milk, she" and "Milk, her, " Dufty said, "I felt like I was a gay bar and was only ne the morng.

The Uned Stat navy will name a ship after gay rights in Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California, acrdg to a report by US Naval Instute (USNI) activists San Diego and San Francis had mpaigned for the navy to honor Milk and other LGBT dividuals who have served the armed forc spe beg officially banned until served as a divg officer om 1951 to 1955.

THE US NAVY JT LNCHED A SHIP NAMED AFTER HARVEY MILK — NEARLY 70 YEARS AFTER THE GAY RIGHTS IN WAS DISCHARGED OM THE SERVICE DUE TO HIS SEXUALY

The John Lewis class is named for civil rights legend and ngrsman John Lewis of moved to San Francis 1972, where he lived the Castro district, owned a mera shop, and advoted for the rights of LGBT people the growg gay 1977, he won his electn to the San Francis board of supervisors, beg the first openly gay elected official year later, Milk was killed San Francis cy hall by a former supervisor who also killed the mayor, Gee Mosne. “I me of age when straight men pretend to be gay to get out of the army, ” he, he joked, “I thk if Harvey were alive he would be makg jok about providg oil for sailors.

Navy christened a new supply shipped named after Harvey Milk, the gay rights lear who had been forced to rign om service bee of qutns over his sexual orientatn. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Activist Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay elected official California when he won a seat on the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. He was assassated jt a year to his CHANG, HOST: But before he beme an activist and gay rights lear, Milk served the Navy durg the Korean War.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)STUART MILK: He was forced to rign bee he was gay. The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights in and San Francis polician Harvey Milk, acrdg to a Congrsnal notifitn obtaed by USNI News.