Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed--Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

It was no accident that Hegseth did this at the start of Pride Month

Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed—Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops' www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...

— UncoverTheNews (@uncoverthenews.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T11:23:18.459Z

https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-renaming-harvey-milk-navy-ship-sparks-fury-veterans-group-2080673

A veterans group has accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of a "deliberate insult to LGBTQ" troops by renaming a ship carrying the name of the prominent gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.

The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a replenishment oiler, was issued in a memorandum from the office of the Secretary of the Navy, according to CBS News.

"At the start of Pride Month, Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to strip Harvey Milk's name from a ship," VoteVotes, a progressive veterans activist group, posted to X, formerly Twitter.

"A man who served with honor—erased to send a message. This is a deliberate insult to LGBTQ Troops and Americans that weakens our force and shreds the values we fight for."....

The renaming of the ship marks the latest move by Hegseth and the wider Trump administration to purge departments of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

The documents also show that other Navy vessels named after prominent American figures are on a "recommended list" to be renamed. These include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

[jls4561]

1. I'm making book that the new name will be S.S. Anita Bryant. Who's in?

[Skittles]

2. it's an insult to anyone who admired Harvey Milk

it is an insult to democracy

[PermatexNo.2]

3. At first I misread the last line about the reccommended list and thought that that list of my personal.....

.......heroes, especially Cesar Chavez, were folks in line to be honored with a ship's name. How naive. A second reading gave me proof, once again, that Trump and his ilk are constantly on the prowl to find new ways to insult and demean anyone that they deem as being "the other".

[B.See]

4. Exactly.

Their hate, racism, and bigotry used to be thinly disguised. Very thinly. But now they have no compunctions about open, in our faces racism, fascism, and nationalistic white supremacist sentiment.

"Latinos for Trump?" "Blacks for Trump?" "Gays for Trump?"

Please... don't make me laugh.

[PermatexNo.2]

5. Can we hope for a "Great Awakening" among these deluded and deceived folks? I really hope so. Maga? .......

.......not so much.

[B.See]

6. I've been writing

"wake the fuck up, America" for over a decade. So one can only hope.

Btw, welcome to DU.

[PermatexNo.2]

7. Thank you, I'll try to behave.

[William769]

8. Trying to write us out of history again.

Just remember one thing. We are everywhere!