A DOD official said the decision's timing, during Pride month, was intentional. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk ...

Leaders in the LGBTQ+ community and the family of Long Island native and gay rights activist Harvey Milk this week denounced a Pentagon review that could strip his name from a U.S. Navy ship. "It ...

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 gay rights activist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The act of renaming a Navy ship is very rare and considered partially taboo. The most recent occurrence was in 2023, when the USS ...

A Navy ship is in Mobile for maintenance only hours after receiving a new name from Pentagon officials. The fleet replenishment oiler U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk is now the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, named for ...

Re “Hegseth orders name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from San Diego-built Navy ship” (June 3): President Trump wants to rename the USNS Harvey Milk at the beginning of Pride Month. I ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A reported Pentagon recommendation to remove Harvey Milk's name from a U.S. Navy ship has sparked outrage in San Francisco’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship, and especially during Pride Month, when ...