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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the new name for the naval ship USNS Harvey Milk will be the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. "We are taking the politics out of ship naming," Hegseth said in a statement.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 a city supervisor of a San Francisco and the first openly gay officer in the city's history. He, along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone, was shot and killed on Nov. 27, 1978 ...

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 ...

The two-act “Harvey Milk Reimagined,” which Opera Parallèle will present in its West Coast premiere at the Blue Shield of California Theater on Friday, gives the San Francisco trailblazer new ...