The naming of the USS Harvey Milk recognized those like Milk who contributed to the nation’s defense despite the ...

Navy Chief Watertender Oscar Verner Peterson died while performing damage control on his ship during the Battle of the Coral ...

Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, has announced the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk. Vowing to “take the politics out of ship naming”, Hegseth criticized the trend ...

Harvey Bernard Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York. Reared in a small middle-class Jewish family, Milk was one of two boys born to William and Minerva Milk.

Harvey Milk became one of the nation's first openly gay elected officials when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Born on May 22, 1930, Milk enlisted in the Navy in 1951.

The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.

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

On 3 June, the US defence secretary ordered the USNS Harvey Milk’s name scrubbed off. The activist had served as a sailor in the Korean War ...

(CNN) — American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers. Now, as Pride Month begins, the Trump administration is set ...

Harvey Milk was the first out, gay person elected to public office in California. The first out gay elected official in the country was Kathy Kozachenko, who was elected to the Ann Arbor, Michigan ...

The two-act “Harvey Milk Reimagined,” which Opera Parallèle will present in its West Coast premiere at the Blue Shield of California Theater on Friday, gives the San Francisco trailblazer new ...