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

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

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

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.

Born on May 22, 1930, Milk enlisted in the Navy in 1951. He resigned four years later after being officially questioned about his sexuality, according to the Harvey Milk Foundation.

The USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean in December 2024. On June 3, 2025, officials said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to rename ...

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 ...

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

The USNS Harvey Milk is part of a fleet of replenishment oilers named after civil rights advocates including Chief Justice Earl Warren and US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday the USNS Harvey Milk is being renamed the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, after he ordered the Navy to strike the name of the pioneering ...