A U.S. Navy ship has a new moniker after the Trump administration stripped it of its previous name that honored a slain icon of the gay rights movement. Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has announced ...

The John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy logistics support ship that refuels other vessels and can also deliver supplies, is now named after Medal of Honor recipient Oscar ...

The move marks Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest foray into culture-war issues and comes near the conclusion of Pride Month.

The US Navy on Friday renamed a ship that previously bore the name of Harvey Milk, a gay civil rights activist and icon in the LGBTQ community who was murdered in 1978. The supply ship USNS Harvey ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the name of gay icon Harvey Milk be removed a U.S. Navy ship, a move intentionally timed during Pride Month, reports say.

Hegseth orders name change – during Pride month – for Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk by Associated Press June 3, 2025, 2:00 p.m. June 3, 2025, 4:33 p.m. Share this: ...

Now, as Pride Month begins, the Trump administration is set to take the almost unprecedented action of stripping his name from a Navy ship, a defense official told CNN.. The order to rename the ...

A Navy supply ship named for former Navy officer and 1970s civil rights icon Harvey Milk may soon be stripped of its name at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a defense official ...

(CNN) — American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers. Now, as Pride Month begins, the Trump administration is set ...