The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a report by USNI News. According to the report, the July 14 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS…
On tonight’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, former Navy sailor Landon Wilson says he was forced to leave the military for being transgender. The report will be broadcast tonight, March 17 on th eCBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, (6:30-7:00 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Watch an excerpt of CBS News Chief…
Organizers insist that a national campaign to persuade the United States Navy to christen “the next appropriate ship” the USS Harvey Milk in honor of the slain civil rights leader and naval veteran, launched nearly two years ago, is still on course. But they confess that achieving their goal is far from a sure thing,…
Friday Nov. 9, a crowd of more than 200 LGBT community members, veterans and allies gathered to honor 11 veterans who were inducted into the Benjamin F. Dillingham III and Bridget Wilson LGBT Veterans’ Wall of Honor at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The veterans honored were: • Donald P. Kambic, U.S. Army, 1942-1946…
The California state Senate has passed a resolution urging the secretary of the Navy to name the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk, the LGBT civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1978 at San Francisco’s City Hall. Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) who authored the resolution said, “Harvey Milk was a trailblazing influence in…
Two letters written by military personnel were spotlighted as part of the launch of a new Internet campaign sponsored by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe to shed light on inequalities suffered veterans and active-duty servicemebers because of the Defense of Marriage Act and other discriminatory federal laws. The campaign is being called, “Stories From…
Military members who wish to wear their uniforms in this weekend’s San Diego PRIDE Parade have been granted permission by the Department of Defense. The approval follows a wave of media attention that focused on military members intending to march in traditional uniform garb at the San Diego PRIDE Parade — a statement that would…
When I came to San Diego from West Hollywood one year ago, I thought I was leaving the epicenter of all LGBT life and retreating to the quiet provinces for a more placid existence. How fooled I was by the bucolic air in this city of surfers. San Diego is, without a doubt, the hub…
Earlier today, a local Web site erroneously advised active-duty servicemembers that the Pentagon had endorsed the wearing of military uniforms in this weekend’s San Diego Pride Parade. Later, that same Web site attempted to disambiguate its advisement to servicemembers with a warning that an unnamed, high-ranking officer had forbade the wearing of Navy uniforms at Pride….
Congressman Bob Filner (D-California) has joined with several prominent LGBT civil rights leaders from San Diego and across the country, calling on the US Navy to name “ … the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk.” The late civil rights icon, Harvey Milk was a Navy veteran who began his service during the Korean War….
