Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to strip the name of prominent gay rights activist and navy veteran Harvey Milk from a ship.
The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler, is in a memorandum from the office of the Secretary of the Navy. The renaming is being done to ensure alignment with Trump objectives and priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture.
The US Navy named the ship for the gay rights icon Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California. He served as a diving officer from 1951 to 1955.
Milk won a seat on the San Francisco board of supervisors. As one of the US’s first openly gay politicians, he became a forefront figure of the gay rights movement across the country before his assassination in 1978.
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