Harvey Milk’s name returned to headlines after the defense secretary ordered the name of the slain gay rights advocate, who ...

The John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy logistics support ship that refuels other vessels and can also deliver supplies, is now named after Medal of Honor recipient Oscar ...

(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP)) (CN) — In an announcement coinciding with the end of Pride Month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Friday the U.S.

It was Milk who commissioned artist Gilbert Baker to create a symbol to represent the LGBTQ+ community. Until then, the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the U.S. Navy was renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, named for one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials in San Francisco.

USNS Harvey Milk was the second ship in the John Lewis class of Navy oilers. It was decided during the Obama administration that they would be named for civil rights icons.

WALSH: Before becoming a San Francisco supervisor, Milk was a Navy dive instructor in the 1950s until he was forced out because of his sexuality. USNS Harvey Milk was the second ship in the John Lewis ...

USNS Harvey Milk was the second ship in the John Lewis class of Navy oilers. It was decided during the Obama administration that they would be named for civil rights icons.