D efense 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 ...

Despite calls for the Salt Lake City road to be renamed, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said Harvey Milk Boulevard is an “appropriate tribute” to the LGBTQ activist and should remain.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received the Medal of Honor, stripping the ship of the name of a slain gay ...

Navy replenishment oiler, which was previously named for gay rights leader, has been renamed for World War II hero Oscar V. Peterson.

Navy Chief Watertender Oscar Verner Peterson died while performing damage control on his ship during the Battle of the Coral ...

I say to my community today, with every breath of my being and the weight of our history at my back, we will not be erased. Not now. Not ever. On Nov. 6, 2021, a ship was christened in San Diego ...

The US Navy plans to remove the name of gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships, and may change the titles of other vessels honouring civil rights leaders.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “ A Gay Old Time .” In this week’s column, marking 4th of July weekend, let’s ...

International Airport has been declared among the world's "most beautiful" for its design of Harvey Milk Terminal 1, which was completed last year.

No other changes are expected soon to the fleet of John Lewis-class ships, most of which are named after civil rights figures ...

Harvey Bernard Milk was born and raised in Woodmere, New York. After graduating from college with a mathematics degree in 1951, he followed in his parents' footsteps and enlisted in the Navy.

Harvey Milk was the first out, gay person elected to public office in California. The first out gay elected official in the country was Kathy Kozachenko, who was elected to the Ann Arbor, Michigan ...