The US Navy that once discharged HARVEY MILK for being gay, is now honoring the legendary gay rights activist with a ship after him that has just started being built.

After graduation, Milk had joined the Navy during the Korean War and he  served aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake  as a diving officer.  It was when he later transferred to the Naval Station at  San Diego in 1955 as a Lieutenant that he was forced to resign after being caught in a gay cruising park.  The irony now being that San Diego is the same place where the new ship is being constructed

The USNS Harvey Milk is one is a series of vessels known as the John Lewis-class, named for civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis, (D-Ga.).

Others in the class include ships named for former Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women’s rights activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth.