U.S. Navy names ship after Harvey Milk. Milk was one of the first gay candidates elected to public office. He was serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 when a political colleague, Dan White, assassinated him and Mayor George Moscone at City Hall.
Replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk slid down the shipyard ways after a bottle of champagne was smashed on the bow by former Navy officer Paula M. Neira, clinical program director for the John Hopkins Center for Transgender Health.
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