{"id":980505,"date":"2021-11-07T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980505"},"modified":"2021-11-07T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:43:48","slug":"u-s-navy-launches-ship-named-after-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-launches-ship-named-after-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Launches Ship Named After Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-navy-launches-ship-named-after-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A U.S. Navy ship carrying the name of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk was formally christened and launched Saturday in San Diego Bay.<\/p>\n<p>AP reports the replenishment oiler USNS <em>Harvey Milk<\/em> was welcomed into service after a bottle of champagne was smashed on the bow by former Navy officer Paula M. Neira, clinical program director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Milk\u2019s nephew, Stuart Milk, and U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro joined the traditional public ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary of the Navy needed to be here today, not just to amend the wrongs of the past, but to give inspiration to all of our LGBTQ community leaders who served in the Navy, in uniform today and in the civilian workforce as well too, and to tell them that we\u2019re committed to them in the future,\u201d Del Toro said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18638802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236395672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18638802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236395672-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, speaks during the ceremonial address for the USNS Harvey Milk at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, California on November 6, 2021.(ARIANA DREHSLER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18638818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236396010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18638818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236396010-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>David Campos (L), vice chair of the California Democratic Party, Nicole Murray-Ramirez (C) an LGBT activist, holding a photo of Harvey Milk, and Bevan Dufty director of the San Francisco Bay area rapid transit district pose for a photo before the launching of the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego, California on November 6, 2021. (ARIANA DREHSLER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2016\/07\/30\/u-s-navy-name-ship-harvey-milk\/\">reported<\/a>, former U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus first publicly notified&nbsp;his intent to put Milk\u2019s name on a \u201cMilitary Sealift Command fleet oiler\u201d back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mabus decided six new future oilers would be named after civil and human rights leaders. In addition to Milk, they include Sojourner Truth, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, suffragist Lucy Stone and Rep. John Lewis of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Milk, co-founder and president of the Harvey Milk Foundation, thanked Mabus for providing the family details of his uncle\u2019s discharge from the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a less-than-honorable discharge. He was forced to resign because he was gay,\u201d Stuart Milk said, adding that \u201cwe have to teach our history to prevent ourselves from going backwards and repeating it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General Dynamics NASSCO began construction of the six oilers in San Diego in 2018 under a $3.2 billion Navy contract. The first ship in the class, the John Lewis, was christened this summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>AP contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Navy ship carrying the name of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk was formally christened and launched Saturday in San Diego Bay. 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