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.

Last month Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that the USS Harvey Milk, the Navy supply ship named after former San ...

They said ships shouldn't be named for civil rights leaders, but only the one named for the LGBTQ+ leader appears to be changing.

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

Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, and he built a legacy advocating for LGBTQ+ rights. "Harvey came out and organized at a time that was also very dark, a ...

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 Harvey Milk Foundation, founded by his nephew, carries on Milk’s mission by promoting LGBTQIA+ rights globally. Schools, streets, and memorials bear his name, ensuring new generations learn ...

Reverting military base names back to their original names, this time with different namesakes who share Confederate surnames ...

USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016. The move sparked the ire of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who called the decision “a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers ...

Harvey Milk Plaza will stand in the heart of the Castro, where Harvey Milk lived during his groundbreaking time as a San Francisco supervisor, and where the fight for gay rights largely took shape.

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk, says the best way for LGBTQ+ people to react to the Trump administration’s order to take Milk’s name off ...

Harvey Milk Reimagined, a shortened version of the 1996 opera Harvey Milk now playing in a production by Opera Parallèle at YBCA in San Francisco, carries that daunting legacy on its shoulders. I ...