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The U. Navy plans to honor slain gay rights activist and former San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk by naming a ship after him. The news came in a report published by the U. Naval Institute, citing a notification sent to Congress earlier this month by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, signaling his intention to name a Military Sealift Command fleet oiler after Milk.

The Navy has not officially confirmed the plan. Milk was the first openly gay elected official in California. As a young man, he served in the Navy as a diving officer during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged from the service with the rank of lieutenant in Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in A year later, he was assassinated, along with Mayor George Moscone, by another former Supervisor Dan White, over a dispute about White's resignation from the Board.

When White changed his mind and tried to get his job back, Milk and Moscone opposed his reinstatement. In a rage, White killed them both. The news of the Navy's plans to honor Milk was met with cheers and some mixed reactions by local leaders and activists who knew him. Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, who long had organized public pressure for the Navy to honor his uncle told the San Francisco Chronicle :.

It's a very fitting tribute to a man whose primary goal was for people to be authentic and not have to wear a mask. He has been dead a long time. I can tell you I have mixed feelings. It is obviously an indication that gay people are more accepted than they were when he lived.

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