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Retired Navy admiral criticizes Hegseth over Harvey Milk ship renaming

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to rename several Navy ships, including the USNS Harvey Milk, in a move unveiled during Pride Month 2025.
Hegseth's initiative seeks to promote a warrior culture and is part of the Trump administration’s wider effort to oppose naming honors for liberal figures and activism.
The USNS Harvey Milk, named in 2016 for the first openly gay elected official in California, was the first Navy ship to honor a gay leader and renaming is considered highly unusual.
Milk famously declared that if he were shot, he wanted that act to break down all barriers of secrecy surrounding LGBTQ+ identities, demonstrating his willingness to sacrifice his life for civil rights and equality.
The renaming proposal has sparked backlash from Milk's family and LGBTQ+ advocates who view it as a political slight and has raised questions about how military values and history are defined.

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Not on His Watch! Matt Bomer Wears USNS Harvey Milk t-shirt to Honor His Legacy and Cement the Name of the Naval Vessel Despite Trump’s Proposed Removal

The Trump Administration’s attacks against the LGBTQ community range from truly harmful to utterly absurd to downright petty. The latest among these attacks, arguably a combination of all three, is a proposal to change the name of USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) – a gesture introduced, of course, during Pride Month. The slight to Harvey Milk [...] The post Not on His Watch! Matt Bomer Wears USNS Harvey Milk t-shirt to Honor His Legacy and Cement the…

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