Harvey Milk, former San Francisco supervisor and California's first openly gay elected official, would have turned 95 years old on May 22, 2025.

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.

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

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

USNS Harvey Milk was one of six ships dedicated to prominent civil rights leaders. Other figures honored with ship names include Sojourner Truth, John Lewis, and Robert F. Kennedy.

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.

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

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 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.

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 ...